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Your favourite fiction authors share the story behind their latest books.

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Banned Books

Banned Books 01: Race and racism in the USA

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas was inspired by the black lives matter movement and explores police brutality — so why is it being taken off library shelves in the US? Banned Books is a new series that looks at what's driving book bans worldwide.
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Duration: 24 minutes 16 seconds

Published: with Sarah L'Estrange

Banned Books 02: The Satanic Verses and the fatwa

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie inspired riots in England and book burnings in India; death threats, murders and a fatwa; and ultimately, a devastating physical attack on Salman Rushdie in 2022.
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Duration: 24 minutes 2 seconds

Published: with Sarah L'Estrange

Banned Books 03: Homoerotic fiction in China

Webfiction is a gargantuan platform for writers in China but authors of male to male fiction - known as the danmei or boyslove genre - are experiencing a censorship crackdown and some writers have been imprisoned for their writing.
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Duration: 18 minutes 24 seconds

Published: with Sarah L'Estrange

Banned Books 04: USA's most banned book in Australia

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe is the most banned book in the USA and now it's  being challenged in the courts in Australia.  Banned Books is a new series that looks at what's driving book bans worldwide.
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Duration: 26 minutes 49 seconds

Published: with Sarah L'Estrange

Fakes and Frauds

Fakes and Frauds 01 | Plagiarism scandal in The Dogs by John Hughes

Fakes and Frauds is a new series that unpacks famous Australian literary scandals. The first and most recent controversy was the discovery of plagiarism in the work of award winning Australian writer John Hughes.
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Duration: 32 minutes 28 seconds

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Fakes and Frauds 02 | Fact or fiction in Norma Khouri's Forbidden Love

Find out how to catch a con-artist in this episode of Fakes and Frauds that delves into the fake memoir Forbidden Love by Norma Khouri 20 years after the book was first published. 
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Duration: 36 minutes 34 seconds

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Fakes and Frauds 03 | Fabrication and lies in Marlo Morgan's Mutant Message Down Under

Cannibalism, telepathy and celibacy are just some of the false claims about Australian Aboriginal people that Marlo Morgan made in her 1990s new age hit, Mutant Message Down Under, and this episode of Fakes and Frauds exposes the lies. 
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Duration: 34 minutes 23 seconds

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Fakes and Frauds 04 | Fake identity and Helen Demidenko's The Hand that Signed the Paper

The Helen Demidenko scandal tore the Australian literary community apart in the 1990s. This episode of Fakes and Frauds charts the rise and downfall of Helen Demidenko and the impacts on the book world.  
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Duration: 40 minutes 30 seconds

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