Today our featured book is Out of Breath by Anna Snoekstra brought to you by Harlequin Fiction.
Anna Snoekstra is an award-winning author and screenwriter who lives in Naarm/Melbourne. She is the author of Only Daughter, Little Secrets and The Spite Game. Her novels have been published in over twenty countries and sixteen languages. She has written for The Guardian, Meanjin and LitHub and had short fiction published in The Saturday Paper and The Griffith Review. Her new novel Out of Breath is out now. Her first audio drama, This Isn’t Happening, is out with Audible early 2023.
Anna wrote about her research process for Kill Your Darlings – Method Writing and the Limits of Research
Anna recommends Hydra by Adrienne Howell
Find Anna on Instagram and Twitter and check out her upcoming events – many of which are with Eliza Henry Jones (Salt and Skin) – via her website.
Kate goes ON about Verb Wellington – ‘the best festival she’s ever been to’.
Behrouz Boochani – author of No Friend but the Mountains and his new book Freedom, Only Freedom
Listening
Kate has been listening to Katherine talk to Heather Rose, superb interview.
Katherine is still obsessively listening to Esther Perel in Where Should We Begin.
Reading
Heather Rose – Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here
Nagi Maehashi – RecipeTin Eats Dinner
Allen C Jones – Her Death Was Also Water
Coco Solid – How to Loiter in a Turf War
Dr Hinemoa Elder – Wawata, Moon Dreaming
Kate de Goldi – Eddy, Eddy
Watching
The Mysterious Bendict Society
Upcoming Events
Katherine is speaking with Allen C Jones at Eltham Bookshop, Nov Thursday 17th. 6.30pm about his new novel Her Death Was Also Water.
Kate will be in Sydney for Writing NSW Talking the Talk Wed 23rd November. 6.30pm. Bookings here.
The First Time podcast 