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Rating:3.1 of 5Total number of episodes:50Last broadcast:06/06/2017 at 22:00
June 2017
32:00

Season 11, Episode 8 (Sydney Writers' Festival)

4.0 12 x
Sydney Writers' Festival guests Colson Whitehead & Natalie Haynes join Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy & Jason Steger to discuss Arundhati Roy's 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' and Junot Diaz's 'Drown'. (Season Final)
May 2017
31:00

Season 11, Episode 7 (Sydney Writers' Festival Books That Changed My Life)

3.0 16 x
Jennifer Byrne is joined by a special panel of authors at the Sydney Writers' Festival for 'Books That Changed My Life' featuring guests George Saunders, Anne Enright, Brit Bennett and Mikhail Zygar.
32:00

Season 11, Episode 6

3.0 13 x
Guests Ben Quilty and Jane Allen join Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger to discuss David Grann's exploration into the Osage county murders and much-loved children's classic 'Watership Down'.
31:00

Season 11, Episode 5

3.0 12 x
Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy & Jason Steger are joined by Di Morrissey & Adam Liaw to consider 'Jean Harley Was Here' by Heather Taylor Johnson & a favourite of two Clubbers - 'The Group' by Mary McCarthy.
30:00

Season 11, Episode 4

3.0 27 x
Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy & Jason Steger are joined by C.S. Pacat and Zoe Norton Lodge as The Book Club grapples with the ghostly Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders & the timely classic, The Handmaid's Tale.
32:00

Season 11, Episode 3

3.0 22 x
Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy & Jason Steger are joined by guests John Safran & Michael Williams to discuss Michael Chabon's Moonglow and the frolicking classic - Miss Pettigrew Lives for the Day.
April 2017
33:00

Season 11, Episode 2

3.0 12 x
Guests Omar Musa and C.S. Pacat join Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger to chat about Mohsin Hamid's Exit West and Dorothy Porter's sexy The Monkey's Mask.
32:00

Season 11, Episode 1

3.0 17 x
The Book Club returns with crime writer Michael Robotham & author Clementine Ford. The group discuss Kathryn Heyman's thriller Storm & Grace & J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family & Culture in Crisis.
March 2017
30:00

Season 10, Episode 10 (Books That Transport You)

3.0 16 x
John Birmingham, Kitty Flanagan, Noel Pearson and fantasy writer C.S. Pacat join Jennifer Byrne for The Book Club's last fun themed special for the series: 'The Books That Transport You.'
February 2017
32:00

Season 10, Episode 4

3.0 17 x
It's crime time on The Book Club as guests Adam Liaw and Michael Robotham attempt to solve the mystery behind Emily McGuire's "An Isolated Incident" while Marieke brings "Lucky Jim" to the Club.
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