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William and Lonsdale - Lives in the LawJock SerongThis week, we welcome multi-award-winning writer and former barrister, Jock Serong. For as long as he can remember, Jock wanted to be a writer, but after a better-than-expected mark in year 12, a law degree seemed to be a safer bet than journalism. Despite doing some truly fascinating cases, including early Native Title work in Western Australia, and junioring in the Silk Miller murder trials, it was always the stories and not the law that captivated him. So after almost two decades in the law, he let his practising certificate expire and made the leap to full-time writer. Jock has...
2025-09-2456 min
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2025-07-0718 minDon't Shoot The MessengerEp 361 - Women In Sport Live RecordingTHE WOMEN IN SPORT PANEL – ALL THANKS TO LEAN CUISINE- listen to nobody but your body -
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- We discuss their own journeys – and delve into meaningful conversations about racism, sexism, the impact sport has on community
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2025-07-031h 27
James and Ashley Stay at HomeChoosing to have children as a creative with Dinuka McKenzie and Lee KofmanWhat considerations come into choosing to have a baby for creatives? And once baby enters the picture, how do you balance parenting with your creative practice? We ask Dinuka McKenzie and Lee Kofman, two beloved past guests who happen to be both authors and parents, about their decision to have children and how they manage their writing lives as parents. Plus, James has a big announcement – you'll never guess what it is. Lee Kofman is a Russian-born, Israeli-Australian memoirist, novelist, editor and writing coach. She's the author of three fiction books and two me...
2025-03-1152 min
Imagining The PastImagining the Past—Summer/Autumn Season—2025—Stephen Romei in conversation with Fiona McFarlane & Jock SerongWriter and critic Stephen Romei is in conversation with Jock Serong and Fiona McFarlane. Jock discusses part three of his Furneaux trilogy, The Settlement, which was short listed for the 2023 ARA Historica Novel Price. Part two of the trilogy, The Burning Island, won the ARA Prize in 2021. Fiona discusses her second novel, The Sun Walks Down, which was shortlisted for the 2023 Walter Scott Historical Fiction Prize, and long-listed for the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize.
Imagining the Past is listed in the Top 25 Historical Fiction Podcasts.
2025-02-2550 min
BreakfastersIce Cream, Tim Tams & RobotsThe team discuss what a reasonable amount of ice cream flavours would be; international relations expert Binoy Kampark summarises the US election; author Jock Serong chats about his new book Cherrywood; Megan McKeough reviews new film Saturday Night by Jason Reitman; Michael Harden shines the spotlight on the beloved Aussie food icon, Tim Tams, and comedian Gillian Cosgriff predicts a robot takeover.With presenters Monique Sebire, Daniel Burt & Nat Harris.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/breakfasters/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Breakfasters3RRRFM/Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakfasters
2024-11-071h 14
Writer's Book Club PodcastJock SerongJock Serong talks about the writing craft and process behind his novel Cherrywood.Jock tells us how this novel started with several image fragments and a variety of influences, from Peter Carey’s Oscar & Lucinda and Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi, to Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree, and the Narnia Chronicles, with a little Dickens and Austen thrown in.Jock’s explanation of how a handful of ideas became a story is one of the best I've heard. He also tells us his thoughts on writing place as character, how to describe minor characters so they sta...
2024-11-021h 05
So You Want to be a WriterWRITER 635: Meet Christian White on his novel 'The Ledge' – and writing the Netflix hit ‘Clickbait’.Meet bestselling author and screenwriter Christian White on his novel The Ledge and writing the Netflix hit Clickbait. his writing process, and his transition from books to screenwriting, including his work on TV shows like Clickbait and Apartment 7A. 00:00 Welcome to episode 63501:46 Nat Newman's writing tip02:41 Nat's creative writing journey04:34 The importance of elevator pitches09:07 Win: Cherrywood by Jock Serong11:20 Word of the week: Panoply14:01 Interview with Christian White, author of The Ledge31:43 The journey to Clickbait33:15 Balancing success and stress35:16 Appreciating the moment36:11 From Clickbait to Apar...
2024-10-281h 03
Writer's Book Club PodcastDonna M. CameronDonna M Cameron talks about the writing craft and process behind her novel The Rewilding. Donna and I discussed what inspired the novel, the importance of trusting your gut, how choosing the right point of view and tense can bring the writing alive, how she raised the stakes and why she dislikes dialogue tags. We also talked about her beta readers and the editing process for The Rewilding, and Donna does three fabulous readings from the novel to illustrate how she differentiates the voices for her characters.ABOUT DONNA M. CAMERONDonna M C...
2024-10-0652 min
The Book ShowRumaan Alam — why we don't talk about moneyBestselling author of Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam explores money obsession in his novel Entitlement, plus Jock Serong gets magical in Cherrywood and writer-doctor Jumaana Abdu's debut novel, Translations.American author, Rumaan Alam's bestselling last book, Leave the World Behind, was adapted to the screen starring Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke. His new book is Entitlement and while it explores themes of power, race and class it also begs us to ask ourselves "does money really buy happiness?" Set in New York, it's about a young, middle class black woman, who's hired to help an old...
2024-09-2354 min
Connected Libraries Book Matters PodcastJock Serong & Brooke HardwickThis month Janine chats with Victorian author Jock Serong about his new novel "Cherrywood" an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight, a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love and reinvention. Then Courtney speaks with debut novelist Brooke Hardwick about her novel The Fog - a spine-chilling gothic thriller, where a woman on the brink travels to a remote writers’ retreat to uncover the secrets of her past and lands herself in a deadly situation that could destroy her future.We hope you enjoy!Connected Libraries WebsiteConnected Libraries Facebook PageIn a nook...
2024-09-161h 04
The BookshelfMalcolm Knox's The First Friend: a black comedy set in Stalin's Soviet UnionA peripatetic hotel, a paddle steamer of dreams and a dastardly law firm, in Jock Serong’s Cherrywood; one of the 20th century’s top 10 all-star ‘leading’ murderers, and what it might mean to be close to him, in Malcolm Knox’s The First Friend; and spies, caves, lies and Neanderthals in Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake. BOOKS Malcolm Knox, The First Friend, Allen & Unwin Jock Serong, Cherrywood, Fourth Estate Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake, Jonathan Cape GUESTS Roanna Gonsalves, creative writing academic, writer whose books include the short story collec...
2024-09-0654 minDon't Shoot The MessengerEp 326 - When in doubt, blame the woman (The Yoko Ono Syndrome)ON THIS EPISODE:- Father’s Day & a weekend without footy- The fallout with Christian Petracca and Melbourne- Why are wives and partners often blamed when there’s controversy?- Caro’s shoutout for her editor of the last 3 decades Send through feedback feedback@dontshootpod.com.auFollow us on socials:Facebook.com/dontshootpodInstagram: @DontshootpodTwitter: @Dontshootpod When a man’s in trouble, blame the woman Unpacking the Christian Petracca story – the im...
2024-09-031h 05
Bad Diaries PodcastS2E3: Jock SerongIn our first guest interview for Season 2 of the podcast, Jenny chats with Jock Serong on a chilly Victorian night. They talk diaries, rituals, the writing life, and what Jock does with his old Blundstones.Jock was one of five writers who read at the second-ever Bad Diaries Salon, back in September 2017 in Melbourne, and in this interview Jenny and Jock look back at that salon. The theme was TRIPS, and Jock read from a travel journal he kept in his 20s; in this episode of the podcast, Jock reads again from his travel journal, and it’s...
2024-06-1046 min
Literary La TrobeHistorical Fictions/Future Opportunities (2023 Bendigo Writers Festival)What is the role of fiction in the process of truth-telling? Do stories of past injustices and atrocities have the power to heal present and future generations? Who has licence to give voice to a nation’s colonial past? Three award-winning novelists discuss the redemptive power of fiction writing.
Jock Serong (The Settlement, Text)
Claire G. Coleman (Enclave, Hachette)
Paul Daley (Jesustown, A&U)
Chair: Dr Kelly Gardiner (English and Creative Arts, La Trobe University)
Recorded at the Bendigo Writers Festival on 5th May, 2023.
2024-04-121h 00
The BookshelfNew books by Ann Patchett, Naoise Dolan and Hwang Sok-yong: “Good marriages are never as interesting as bad affairs”Cassie and Kate read Ann Patchett's Tom Lake, Naoise Dolan's The Happy Couple and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10 with actor Angourie Rice and novelist Jock Serong
2023-08-1154 min
HORSES MOUTHMARK WILLETTMark Willett is a dude whos been on one hell of a ride ! literally and figuratively.
Such a great guy is Mark, I met Mark through surfing and chatting at 13th Beach and have kept in touch ever since., He's been a super supportive person to me on my journey with Horse's Mouth which I just love. Helps keep me inspired.
During this chat Mark tells me about his growing up and how in a way following his heart and finding a life on and around the ocean has given him a life beyond his wildest dreams, He's surfed...
2023-07-021h 48
HORSES MOUTHDAVE BUTTERWORTHWelcome to episode 83 where I had the pleasure of talking with none other than BUTTERS - Dave Butterworth is such a good lad, living a life of creativity, following his heart through school, Modern dance, Uni, Band life, the 90s, RRR radio host, Surfer - Butters is a man after my own heart !!! Seemingly always lived just going with what the heart wants for better or worse.
It was such an Honour to have Butters in, He really is a rockstar whose thirst for music and creativity is palpable, we meander conversationally through Dave's life and his latest life-changing challenge, h...
2023-06-201h 57
Not Quite Write InterviewsInterview with Jock Serong at Words on the WavesNumber 2 in our series of 8 interviews at the 2023 Words on the Waves Writers Festival, we chat with Jock Serong — reformed lawyer and multi award-winning author of several books including ‘The Rules of Backyard Cricket’ and his most recent novel, ‘The Settlement.’
We enjoyed a wide-ranging chat with Jock about Australian culture: from the lie-addled history of colonial Australia, to modern surf culture, and the real truth behind ‘The Castle.’
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2023-06-1515 min
Secrets from the Green RoomSeason 3: Episode 30: Jock SerongIrma and Karen chat about attending festivals as an interlocutor or as a panellist. Then Karen talks to Jock Serong about making the move from lawyer to novelist, why he dives into dark places, the fraught territory of navigating writing First Nations characters and history as a descendant of settler Australians, why he goes on writing excursions with his characters, a surreal green room experience with Ian Rankin, and an utterly disastrous panel event.
2023-05-0244 min
THE BLARNEY SESSIONSJayne Tuttle - Oct 2022Jayne Tuttle in conversation with Jock Serong at Blarney Books and Art.
2023-04-061h 13
Stories From SydneyYarramundi, Colebee and Maria of the Boorooberongal clan: A Dharug DynastyIn this episode Jed attempts to tell the multi-generational story of Yarramundi, Colebee and Maria of the Boorooberongal clan of the Dharug people of what is now Western Sydney.
From the first encounters between the Dharug and the British on Dyarubbin in 1791, to the first ever land grant from the British regime to the original inhabitants of Australia in 1816, from Macquarie’s aborted ‘native institute’, the first Indigenous/British marriage and all through the stolen generation to the present day, Yarramundi’s family have been at the centre of the unfolding relations amongst the people that call Western...
2023-03-1201 minDon't Shoot The MessengerEp 248 - A Discombobulated Kind of Year This podcast is proudly supported by Red Energy. This week Caro and Corrie review the Year that was in lists – including the Year’s 5 Big News Stories, the big Footy Stories, the big Farewells and much more. In the Cocktail Cabinet for Prince Wine Store – Myles Thompson brings us the Year’s 5 Great Drinks including;
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2022-12-151h 19
Write Around the MurrayHaunting Stories - Nardi Simpson, Eliza Henry-Jones and Jock SerongNardi Simpson’s Song of the Crocodile, and hot-off-the-press novels, Salt & Skin by Eliza Henry-Jones and The Settlement by Jock Serong, explore past atrocities and their lingering effects through time. They discuss their creative process of writing stories connected to historical violence, trauma and spirit of place with Jason Steger.
Recorded: 18/09/22
2022-12-071h 04Write Around the MurrayShades of Noir - Margaret Hickey and T.R. NapperOutback noir, coastal noir, domestic noir, sunshine noir. We love good crime fiction in this country and we’re not short on ways to categorise it. Jock Serong talks to Margaret Hickey and T.R. Napper about Margaret’s ‘rural noir’, Stone Town, and Tim’s ‘hard-boiled cyberpunk noir’, 36 Streets. Together they shine some light into the dark corners of crime fiction’s subgenres to find out what makes noir so wide-ranging and compelling.
Recorded: 18/09/22
2022-12-0759 minThe Book ShowAgeing and autopsies with Alex Miller and Patricia CornwellAlex Miller and Patricia Cornwell talk about ageing and fiction and their novels A Brief Affair and Livid, and we explore the line between fact and fiction with historical novelists Jock Serong, Eleanor Limprecht and Sienna Brown.
2022-11-2100 min
The Book Pod with Corrie PerkinThe Settlement with Jock SerongCorrie and Jock talk frankly about the confronting final book in his Furneaux Island trilogy. The Settlement follows Preservation and The Burning Island revealing the true story of the appalling treatment of Indigenous Tasmanians. Jock's meticulous research combined with his wonderful storytelling dispels the myth that none survived. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-10-0538 min
Published...Or NotElse Fitzgerald and Jock SerongElse Fitzgerald has written over 20 connected short stories through the grief of drought, fire and floods and into the uncertain future where humans have become genetically adapted to cope, but what about their own desires and hopes in ‘Everything Feels Like the End of the World’. ‘The Settlement’ is Jock Serong’s fictional account of true historical events when George Augustus Robinson attempted to resettle Tasmanian aborigines on a remote island. It is testament to colonial practices that were not only short sighted but cruel.
2022-09-2900 min
Don't Shoot The MessengerEp 236 - A Week That Has Been Overshadowed by DarknessJoin Caroline Wilson and Corrie Perkin for Ep 236. This podcast is proudly supported by Red Energy. Moving house? Call local energy retailer Red Energy. Caro and Corrie discuss the Hawthorn Racism story – broken by Russell Jackson from ABC Sport (you can read the full story HERE).We discuss the role of Fagan and Clarkson, the AFL’s response and ponder where to now for the game?Caro and Corrie also discuss the funeral of Queen Elizabeth 11, the key mome...
2022-09-221h 05
Imagining The PastImagining the Past—2022—Jock Serong
Jock Serong, winner of the 2021 ARA HISTORICAL NOVEL PRIZE—ADULT CATEGORY, discusses The Burning Island with Greg Johnston, and some of the challenges of writing his series set in the Furneaux Group of islands.
2022-09-2042 min
The Weekend ReadJock Serong on the coral windows to our oceans’ past and futureToday, journalist and author Jock Serong will be reading his piece from the latest issue.It's called 'Front-row seats to the end of the Reef' - in it he chronicles his residency at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, and what coral tells us about the past and future of our oceans.Guest: Journalist and author, Jock SerongBackground reading: Front-row seats to the end of the ReefSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2022-09-0212 min
Fuel Your Mind With This Game-Changing Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.The Settlement by Jock SerongPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623612to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Settlement
Author: Jock Serong
Narrator: Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Release date: September 1, 2022
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
In The Settlement, Jock Serong reimagines in urgent, compelling prose the ill-fated exploits of George Augustus Robinson at the settlement of Wybalenna—a venture whose blinkered, self-interested cruelty might stand for the colonial enterprise itself. On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen's Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women. He has gathered together, under varying degrees of...
2022-09-019h 28Get Hooked On The Most Edge-Of-Your-Seat Full Audiobook Today!The Settlement by Jock SerongPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623612to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Settlement
Author: Jock Serong
Narrator: Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Release date: September 1, 2022
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
In The Settlement, Jock Serong reimagines in urgent, compelling prose the ill-fated exploits of George Augustus Robinson at the settlement of Wybalenna—a venture whose blinkered, self-interested cruelty might stand for the colonial enterprise itself. On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen's Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women. He has gathered together, under varying degrees of...
2022-09-019h 28Find Playlist of Full Audiobooks in Self Development, Health & WellnessSettlement - Jock SerongListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://epod.spaceTitle: SettlementAuthor: Jock SerongNarrator: Lewis Fitz-GeraldFormat: UnabridgedLength: 9:28:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 09-01-2022Publisher: Wavesound AudiobooksGenres: Fiction & Literature, Historical FictionSummary:In The Settlement, Jock Serong reimagines in urgent, compelling prose the ill-fated exploits of George Augustus Robinson at the settlement of Wybalenna—a venture whose blinkered, self-interested cruelty might stand for the colonial enterprise itself.
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Title: The Settlement
Author: Jock Serong
Narrator: Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Release date: September 1, 2022
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
In The Settlement, Jock Serong reimagines in urgent, compelling prose the ill-fated exploits of George Augustus Robinson at the settlement of Wybalenna—a venture whose blinkered, self-interested cruelty might stand for the colonial enterprise itself. On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen's Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women. He has gathered together, under varying degrees of...
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Title: The Settlement
Author: Jock Serong
Narrator: Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Release date: September 1, 2022
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
In The Settlement, Jock Serong reimagines in urgent, compelling prose the ill-fated exploits of George Augustus Robinson at the settlement of Wybalenna—a venture whose blinkered, self-interested cruelty might stand for the colonial enterprise itself. On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen's Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women. He has gathered together, under varying degrees of...
2022-09-019h 28
Explore New Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveThe Woman in the Library by Sulari GentillPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600426to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Woman in the Library
Author: Sulari Gentill
Narrator: Nick Ravenswood, Edwina Wren
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Release date: July 21, 2022
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Four strangers. A quiet library. The perfect place for murder. ‘And then there is a scream. Ragged and terrified. A beat of silence even after it stops, until we all seem to realise that the Reading Room Rules no longer apply.' Hannah Tigone, bestselling Australian crime author, is crafting a ne...
2022-07-219h 17
Explore New Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveThe Woman in the Library by Sulari GentillPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600426 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman in the Library Author: Sulari Gentill Narrator: Nick Ravenswood, Edwina Wren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Four strangers. A quiet library. The perfect place for murder. ‘And then there is a scream. Ragged and terrified. A beat of silence even after it stops, until we all seem to realise that the Reading Room Rules no longer apply.' Hannah Tigone, bestselling Australian crime author, is crafting a...
2022-07-2103 minStories From SydneySydney Cove and Her PreservationThis episode we discuss the story of the Sydney Cove, a ship that set sail from Calcutta bound for its eponymous port in 1796. The Sydney Cove never quite made it the whole way, but after countless misadventures just under half of her crew did.
Join us as we discuss a story that is not only all but unbelievable but is one of the most significant stories of first contact between First Nations people and visitors from across the British Empire. This tale was more or less lost to time for much of the 20th century but from...
2022-02-1358 min
THE BLARNEY SESSIONSMark Smith - Nov 2021Mark Smith in conversation with Jock Serong at Blarney Books and Art about his novel, 'If Not Us'.
2021-11-2359 min
Good Reading PodcastJock Serong on the harrowing story of love and adventure on the high seas in 'The Burning Island'Jock Serong is the winner of 2021 Historical Novel Society's ARA Prize for Historical Fiction for the second book in a three part trilogy exploring the history around the Furneaux group of islands off the north-eastern coast of Tasmania.Eliza Grayling reluctantly sets off from Sydney Cove on the Danish schooner Moonbird in search of the wreck of the Howrah, lost in the islands of the Bass Strait carrying valuable but uncertain cargo. Her fellow passengers include her blind alcoholic father, a curious cross-dressing captain and the mysterious Dr Gideon, a botanist and apparent man of science.The journey is compromised...
2021-11-0819 min
Good Reading PodcastJock Serong on the harrowing story of love and adventure on the high seas in 'The Burning Island'Jock Serong is the winner of 2021 Historical Novel Society's ARA Prize for Historical Fiction for the second book in a three part trilogy exploring the history around the Furneaux group of islands off the north-eastern coast of Tasmania.
Eliza Grayling reluctantly sets off from Sydney Cove on the Danish schooner Moonbird in search of the wreck of the Howrah, lost in the islands of the Bass Strait carrying valuable but uncertain cargo. Her fellow passengers include her blind alcoholic father, a curious cross-dressing captain and the mysterious Dr Gideon, a botanist and apparent man of science.The journey is compromised...
2021-11-0819 min
Write Around the MurrayHistorical Fiction: Anita Heiss, Dorothy Simmons and Jock Serong with Jason Steger.Anita Heiss, Dorothy Simmons and Jock Serong discuss historical fiction with Jason Steger.
HIstorical Fiction was part of the Write Around the Murray program for 2021
Recorded 18/09/2021
2021-10-191h 02
THE BLARNEY SESSIONSSteven Conte - June 2021Steven Conte in conversation with Jock Serong at Blarney Books and Art about his novel, 'The Tolstoy Estate'.
2021-06-1456 min
Celebrating LivesJock Serong's Great Australian LifeLaura Turner's guest this week Jock Serong may describe himself as a rather conventional guy, but his life and career path perhaps tell another story altogether.As a successful criminal lawyer and partner in a law firm – it seemed his career was on course before he decided to chuck it all in and try his hand at becoming a writer.Starting as a surfing writer he's now published five books and, it would seem leaving the law was a pretty good bet. Along with telling us his story he’s go...
2021-05-3040 min
Celebrating LivesJock Serong's Great Australian LifeJoin Laura Turner and author Jock Serong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2021-05-2340 min
THE BLARNEY SESSIONSRichard Walters - April 2021Richard Walters in conversation with Jock Serong at Blarney Books and Art about his collection of poems, 'Odd Fellows'.
2021-05-0151 min
THE BLARNEY SESSIONSTim Rogers - Mar 2021Songwriter/musician Tim Rogers (of You Am I fame)in conversation with local author Jock Serong. A Port Fairy Folk Festival Village Program event. Recorded at Blarney Books and Art in March 2021.
2021-04-301h 07
THE BLARNEY SESSIONSJP Pomare - Feb 2020JP Pomare in conversation with Jock Serong at Blarney Books and Art about his novel, 'In the Clearing'.
2021-04-281h 01
THE BLARNEY SESSIONSRobert Gott - Oct 2019Robert Gott in conversation with Jock Serong at Blarney Books and Art about his novel, 'The Autumn Murders'.
2021-04-2848 min
Byron Writers FestivalJock Serong in conversation with Mirandi Riwoe: Live at Lennox HeadJoin celebrated Australian storyteller Jock Serong and acclaimed writer Mirandi Riwoe for a lively discussion about Jock’s new novel The Burning Island, recorded live at Lennox Cultural Centre, in collaboration with Lennox Arts Board (LAB).
Irresistible prose, unforgettable characters and magnificent, epic storytelling: The Burning Island delivers everything readers have come to expect from Jock Serong. It may be his most moving, compelling novel yet.
2021-03-2452 min
Download Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, SuspenseThe Silent Listener by Lyn YeowartPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/466812to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Silent Listener
Author: Lyn Yeowart
Narrator: Anthony Gooley, Annie Maynard, Jessica Bell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 14 hours 25 minutes
Release date: February 2, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Propelling the reader back and forth between the 1940s, 1960s and 1980s, The Silent Listener is an unforgettable literary suspense novel set in the dark, gothic heart of rural Australia. In the cold, wet summer of 1960, 11-year-old Joy Henderson lives in constant fear of her father. She tries to make him happy...
2021-02-022h 25
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, SuspenseThe Silent Listener by Lyn YeowartPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/466812 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Silent Listener Author: Lyn Yeowart Narrator: Anthony Gooley, Annie Maynard, Jessica Bell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: Propelling the reader back and forth between the 1940s, 1960s and 1980s, The Silent Listener is an unforgettable literary suspense novel set in the dark, gothic heart of rural Australia. In the cold, wet summer of 1960, 11-year-old Joy Henderson lives in constant fear of her father. She tries to make him...
2021-02-0203 min
Death of the ReaderReview Season: The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong - 2020 3rd PlaceJock Serong’s The Rules of Backyard Cricket was a bit of an unusual inclusion in our roster for 2020, arriving on our radar after Robert Gott described it as one of the greatest crime fiction novels of the past decade. Turns out, we agree! The Rules of Backyard Cricket comes in third on our rankings after tearing our hearts to pieces as much as we tore it to pieces. A story about brothers, cricket and crime, this book opens with our protagonist and perspective, Darren Keefe, tied up and gagged in the back of a car, with a bullet wo...
2021-02-0104 min
Discover This Addictive Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Peace by Garry DisherPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/461185to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Peace
Author: Garry Disher
Narrator: Steve Shanahan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Release date: November 12, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 27
Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7
Genres: Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
'A scorchingly good novel' MICHAEL ROBOTHAM 'Disher is the gold standard for rural noir' CHRIS HAMMER AN ACT OF INEXPLICABLE CRUELTY. A FAMILY DESTROYED. Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders Ranges. He's still new in town but his community work - welfare checks and a light touch...
2020-11-129h 54Download New Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, SuspensePeace by Garry DisherPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/461185to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Peace
Author: Garry Disher
Narrator: Steve Shanahan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Release date: November 12, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 27
Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7
Genres: Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
'A scorchingly good novel' MICHAEL ROBOTHAM 'Disher is the gold standard for rural noir' CHRIS HAMMER AN ACT OF INEXPLICABLE CRUELTY. A FAMILY DESTROYED. Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders Ranges. He's still new in town but his community work - welfare checks and a light touch...
2020-11-129h 54
Death of the ReaderEXTRA: Craig Sisterton on Southern Cross CrimeWe have a long chat with Craig Sisterton about his new book Southern Cross Crime, as well as the Southern Cross scene itself! Craig is the expert when it comes to Australian and New Zealand Crime, having spent more than a decade reviewing the field, as well as founding the Ngaio Marsh Awards and Rotorua Noir. We talk about the evolution of the community in Australia and New Zealand, the importance of awards, as well as how much more open the world at large is becoming to our antipodean style of crime. We also speak about how Jock Serong's...
2020-10-2635 min
Death of the ReaderThe Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong - Part ThreeWe discuss chapters 15-19 in Jock Serong's The Rules of Backyard Cricket. As Darren Keefe's drive comes to an end, Jock Serong holds nothing back, dealing out the full moral punishment of the story in visceral detail. The ending stings, but that's the idea, as Jock joins us to give a small glimpse into why things had to end the way they did. We also look into how this story fits in with our normal murder mystery affair, and whether or not another book like this could make an appearance on the show. Our guest of honour is Craig...
2020-10-1930 min
Death of the ReaderThe Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong - Part TwoWe discuss chapters 9-14 in Jock Serong's The Rules of Backyard Cricket. While Darren is still stuck and injured in the back of a car, slowly trying to free himself. As his reminisces on a roller-coaster career continue, adulthood has finally arrived. Now competing for the Australian national side, Darren finds himself amidst scandal after scandal. Caught unawares in the middle of unscrupulous gambling, the 60-Grand-Man finds his family torn apart after his niece is kidnapped, and in court over the death of a teenager who died after a night out clubbing with him. Is there any escape from...
2020-10-1230 min
Published...Or NotJock Serong and Alex MillerJock Serong, in 'The Burning Island', takes us on an epic journey into Australia’s early days; the shipwrecks, the eccentric individuals and odd communities found on the islands in Bass Strait.The how and why of Alex Miller's search into finding the facts about his friend Max Blatt, a Nazi-resistance figure, make for an interesting read of connections in 'Max'.
2020-10-0800 min
Death of the ReaderThe Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong - Part OneWe discuss chapters 1-8 of Jock Serong's The Rules of Backyard Cricket. Beginning with our protagonist, Darren Keefe, with a gunshot wound, tied up in the back of the car, it's immediately apparent that this is going to be a slightly different cricket story to the ones normally lining the average cricket fanatic's bookshelf. Exploring Darren and his brother Wally's youth as they go from being the rapscallion children of a single mother to competent professional cricketers, it's not your standard mystery affair but the questions come gnawing all the stronger for it. With Herds tied up in the...
2020-10-0530 min
Discover: This Critically-Acclaimed Full Audiobook For Knowledge Hunters.The Burning Island by Jock SerongPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455091to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Burning Island
Author: Jock Serong
Narrator: Jock Serong
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes
Release date: September 24, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A father's obsession. A daughter's quest. Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern—too old, now—for marriage, she looks out for her reclusive father, Joshua, and wonders about his past. There is a shadow there: an old enmity. When Joshua Grayling is offered the...
2020-09-2412h 27Press Play On Your Ears To A Riveting Full Audiobook.The Burning Island by Jock SerongPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455091to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Burning Island
Author: Jock Serong
Narrator: Jock Serong
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes
Release date: September 24, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
A father's obsession. A daughter's quest. Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern—too old, now—for marriage, she looks out for her reclusive father, Joshua, and wonders about his past. There is a shadow there: an old enmity. When Joshua Grayling is offered the...
2020-09-2412h 27Download New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+The Burning Island by Jock SerongPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455091to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Burning Island
Author: Jock Serong
Narrator: Jock Serong
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes
Release date: September 24, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
A father's obsession. A daughter's quest. Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern—too old, now—for marriage, she looks out for her reclusive father, Joshua, and wonders about his past. There is a shadow there: an old enmity. When Joshua Grayling is offered the...
2020-09-2412h 27Stream Popular Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalThe Burning Island by Jock SerongPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455091to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Burning Island
Author: Jock Serong
Narrator: Jock Serong
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes
Release date: September 24, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A father's obsession. A daughter's quest. Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern—too old, now—for marriage, she looks out for her reclusive father, Joshua, and wonders about his past. There is a shadow there: an old enmity. When Joshua Grayling is offered the...
2020-09-2412h 27
Byron Writers FestivalThe Burning Island: Jock Serong in conversation with Chris HanleyIn this Conversations from Byron podcast, Jock Serong speaks with Chris Hanley about his new book The Burning Island. They discuss creating in the time of Covid-19, while Jock walks us through some of his researching and writing habits. Delving into the book itself, Jock explains where the idea for the story originated and its relationship to his previous novel Preservation. They go on to discuss some of the numerous themes present in the novel, from seafaring to parent-child relationships and problems of addiction.
About the book:
Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant...
2020-09-1634 min
BackstoryJack Serong & Laura Elizabeth WoollettAuthor Jock Serong talks about his latest novel, The Burning Island, the follow up to his critically acclaimed thriller Preservation; and novelist Laura Elizabeth Woollett chats about her essay ‘Award Rate’, her contribution to the Sydney Review of Books series, Writers At Work.With presenter Mel Cranenburgh. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/backstory
2020-09-0938 min
The First TimeConversations with Friends #19: Mark Smith and Jock SerongThis episode of Conversations with Friends is with authors Mark Smith and Jock Serong.
Check out show notes for this episode on our website www.thefirsttimepodcast.com or get in touch via Twitter or Instagram @thefirsttimepod.
The Conversations with Friends series is supported by the City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants.
2020-08-2051 min
Good Reading PodcastEmma Viskic took a road trip with Jock Serong, Sulari Gentill and Robert GottCritically acclaimed and bestselling author of the ‘Caleb Zelic’ series, Emma Viskic, is back with book three: ‘Darkness for Light.’ In this episode of the Good Reading podcast, Emma shares the challenges of writing a deaf detective, Sulari Gentill’s favourite travel snack, and why she steers clear of supernatural horror.
'Darkness for Light,' is out now: bit.ly/38RPF1R
2019-12-1923 min
Good Reading PodcastEmma Viskic took a road trip with Jock Serong, Sulari Gentill and Robert GottCritically acclaimed and bestselling author of the ‘Caleb Zelic’ series, Emma Viskic, is back with book three: ‘Darkness for Light.’ In this episode of the Good Reading podcast, Emma shares the challenges of writing a deaf detective, Sulari Gentill’s favourite travel snack, and why she steers clear of supernatural horror. 'Darkness for Light,' is out now: bit.ly/38RPF1R
2019-12-1923 min
Writer TypesGuest co-host Alafair Burke Kate White, Steph Cha, Emma Viskic, Sulari Gentill, Jock Serong, Robert GottSpecial guest co-host Alafair Burke joins Eric to talk with Kate White and Steph Cha. Eric talks with four Australian authors on a tour of the U.S. - Emma Viskic, Sulari Gentill, Jock Serong and Robort Gott.All music used by permission under the creative commons license. Music in this episode includes:Foundation by Vibe TracksKnock Knock by Podington BearA Lil Somethin Somethin BY The Good LawdzUptown by Podington BearPalmtrees by The Brothers RecordsReckoning by Podington Bear...
2019-12-0553 min
Archive Fever05 | A White Glove ActHow do historical novelists mix research and imagination to bring stories to life? Do they get anxious about wading into academic turf? To investigate these questions, Clare and Yves chat to Jock Serong, award-winning novelist and author of Preservation—a captivating thriller based on the true story of a shipwreck in colonial Australia. Jock reflects on the archive of human character he encountered in his former life as a lawyer, shares tales of battling his editor over animal-skin water carriers, and confesses a secret love of Google Earth.
2019-09-3033 min
Newcastle Writers FestivalReawakening The Past with Claire G Coleman, Jock Serong and Clare WrightIn this session, which was recorded at the 2019 Newcastle Writers Festival, Claire G Coleman, Jock Serong and Clare Wright talk to Julie McIntyre about the challenges of writing history based on previously unheard voices.
2019-07-061h 03
Newcastle Writers FestivalReawakening The Past with Claire G Coleman, Jock Serong and Clare WrightIn this session, which was recorded at the 2019 Newcastle Writers Festival, Claire G Coleman, Jock Serong and Clare Wright talk to Julie McIntyre about the challenges of writing history based on previously unheard voices.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2019-07-061h 03
Newcastle Writers FestivalThe Borderland with Chloe Hooper, Bram Presser and Jock SerongChloe Hooper, Bram Presser and Jock Serong explore the creative space between fact and fiction. This session was recorded at the 2019 Newcastle Writers Festival and is hosted by Geordie Williamson.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2019-06-1256 min
Newcastle Writers FestivalThe Borderland with Chloe Hooper, Bram Presser and Jock SerongChloe Hooper, Bram Presser and Jock Serong explore the creative space between fact and fiction.
This session was recorded at the 2019 Newcastle Writers Festival and is hosted by Geordie Williamson.
2019-06-1256 min
THE BLARNEY SESSIONSMick Thomas March 2019Mick Thomas in conversation with Jock Serong, recorded live at Blarney Books and Art. Brought to you by the Port Fairy Folk Festival 2019.
2019-03-201h 04
THE BLARNEY SESSIONSJock Serong Book LaunchPodcast of the book launch of Jock Serong's most recent novel - Preservation. Recorded live at Blarney Books and Art in Port Fairy.
2019-03-1930 min
Dive Into This Award-Winning Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Preservation by Jock SerongPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/360340to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Preservation
Author: Jock Serong
Narrator: Conrad Coleby
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 0 minutes
Release date: November 23, 2018
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
On a beach not far from the isolated settlement of Sydney in 1797, a fishing boat picks up three shipwreck survivors, distressed and terribly injured. They have walked hundreds of miles across a landscape whose feature – and inhabitants – they have no way of comprehending. They have lost fourteen companions along the way. Their accounts of the ordeal are evasive. It is Lieutenant Joshua Grayling's task to investigate the story. He come...
2018-11-2310h 00Ignite An Life-Enhancing Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.Preservation by Jock SerongPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/360340to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Preservation
Author: Jock Serong
Narrator: Conrad Coleby
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 0 minutes
Release date: November 23, 2018
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
On a beach not far from the isolated settlement of Sydney in 1797, a fishing boat picks up three shipwreck survivors, distressed and terribly injured. They have walked hundreds of miles across a landscape whose feature – and inhabitants – they have no way of comprehending. They have lost fourteen companions along the way. Their accounts of the ordeal are evasive. It is Lieutenant Joshua Grayling's task to investigate the story. He come...
2018-11-2310h 00Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+Preservation by Jock SerongPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/360340to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Preservation
Author: Jock Serong
Narrator: Conrad Coleby
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 0 minutes
Release date: November 23, 2018
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
On a beach not far from the isolated settlement of Sydney in 1797, a fishing boat picks up three shipwreck survivors, distressed and terribly injured. They have walked hundreds of miles across a landscape whose feature – and inhabitants – they have no way of comprehending. They have lost fourteen companions along the way. Their accounts of the ordeal are evasive. It is Lieutenant Joshua Grayling's task to investigate the story. He come...
2018-11-2310h 00Access Unmissable Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalPreservation by Jock SerongPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/360340to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Preservation
Author: Jock Serong
Narrator: Conrad Coleby
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 0 minutes
Release date: November 23, 2018
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
On a beach not far from the isolated settlement of Sydney in 1797, a fishing boat picks up three shipwreck survivors, distressed and terribly injured. They have walked hundreds of miles across a landscape whose feature – and inhabitants – they have no way of comprehending. They have lost fourteen companions along the way. Their accounts of the ordeal are evasive. It is Lieutenant Joshua Grayling's task to investigate the story. He come...
2018-11-2310h 00
Published...Or NotJock Serong and Katherine ColletteJock Serong delves into an often overlooked chapter of early Australian history in his novel, 'Preservation' which addresses the puzzling riddle of The Sydney Cove wreck in 1797 and its cargo of rum.Would life be simpler if relationships were mathematical instead of emotional, perhaps so, but not near as much fun as Katherine Collette has written about in 'The Helpline'.
2018-11-0100 min
Published...Or NotMaree Cootes and Jock SerongA bird teaching about building design! 'Robin Boid: Architect' is a delightfully creative picture story book by Maree Cootes.The criminal and ethical implications of Australia's soverign border policy is starkly illustrated in Jock Serong's 'On the Java Ridge'.
2017-11-2300 min
Puttin' In Work with Jono PechEpisoce 34 - Jock Serong (crime author)Award-winning author Jock Serong talks about leaving his career as a lawyer to write crime novels, his transition from non-fiction to fiction, and the impact of working with a professional publisher and editor.
2017-09-2726 min