After winning the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, Richard Flanagan joins Georgina Godwin to discuss ‘Question 7’, his life and career, and his plans after winning the prize. Described by Peter Carey as maybe just being “the most significant work of Australian art in the last 100 years”, ‘Question 7’ is a love letter to his island home, his parents and the terrible past that delivered him to that place.

Catherine Carr and the complexities of sibling dynamics
28:09

Maria Semple on stoicism, rebellion and personal growth
33:30

Poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney on writing with joy
30:21