The Open Book Podcast

Everybody Knows – podcast about the rise and fall of the MeToo movement in Australia told through the lens of the music industry and the secrecy and archaic laws that protected abusers and prevented survivors from speaking out.

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Sisteria - a podcast about women & non-binary creatives’ experiences as creators & consumers of arts & culture.

Featured chat

Find Animals Make us Human edited by Leah Kaminsky and Meg Keneally

So you think you don't like - adult graphic novels

Find Maus by Art Spiegelman

Find You and a Bike and a Road by Eleanor Davis

Find Watchmen by Alan Moore, illustrated by Dave Gibbons

Find Death Note by Tsugumi Oba, illustrated by Takeshi Obata

Reviews

Find The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Find A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

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Episode Thirteen Show Notes

Main title discussed

Find Meet Me at the Intersection edited by Rebecca Lim and Ambelin Kwaymullina

Interview with Brendan Murray

Find The School : the Ups and Downs of One year in the Classroom by Brendan Murray

Find The Drowned Man by Brendan Murray (Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime 2017)

Find Venom: the heroic search for Australia's deadliest snake by Brendan Murray

Find Silence: the Bleaching of History (Article from The Griffith Review)

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Find Short Stories by Alice Munro

Short Stories by Peter Carey

Reviews

Find Girl, Trans-cending by A.J. Clementine

Find The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita

Favourite books growing up

Find Round the Twist (books and DVD series) by Paul Jennings

Find Are you there God, it's me Margaret by Judy Blume

Find Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Find The Baby-sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin

Find Redwall by Brian Jacques

Find Animorphs (series) by Katherine Applegate

PJ's and Trent's summer reading recommendations

PJ

Find The Bad Guys series by Aaron Blabey

Find Bum Trilogy by Andy Griffiths

Find Folk Tales in the collections

Find Pax: Journey Home by Sara Pennypacker

Science experiment books

Find Science in a Jar by Julia Garstecki

Find Super Science Experiments:Outdoor Fun by Elizabeth Snoke Harris

Find More Hands-on Science: 50 kids activities from CSIRO by various authors

Trent

Find The Baby-sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin

Find Our Australian Girl series by various authors

Find Bone by Jeff Smith

Find Ranger’s Apprentice series by John Flanagan

Find Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events

Find Amazing Magic Tricks by Chris Stone

Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers

Find Treasure Hunt House by Kate Davies

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Episode Twelve Show Notes

Main title discussed

Find Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

Readings by Omar Sakr

'How to sleep' and 'Citizen of' from his works

Find The Lost Arabs

These Wild Houses

Interview with Lisa Burke

WAYSS : Homelessness and domestic violence support in South East Melbourne

The Orange Door : Support for families

Greater Dandenong links to Family Violence Support Services

Reviews

Find Hunt for the Wilderpeople(DVD and Kanopy streaming movie)

Find In My Blood it Runs (Kanopy streaming movie)

Resource list for gender equality and equity and family and intimate partner violence

Find A Mother’s Story by Rosie Batty

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

Crash override : How Gamergate (nearly) destroyed my life, and how we can win the fight against online hate by Zoe Quinn

Faith in freedom: Muslim Immigrant Women's Experiences of Domestic Violence by Nafiseh Ghafournia

Fixed it : Violence and the Representation of Women in the Media by Jane Gilmore

Find Fury: Women Write about Sex, Power and Violence by Samantha Trenoweth

Goodbye Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival by Kelly Sundberg

Find Her Say: Survivors of Domestic Abuse Tell Their Own Stories by Jackie Clark

Find In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder by Jane Monckton-Smith

Find In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism by Laura Bates

My Father, the Murderer: A Reckoning with the Past by Nina Young and Denise Young

Find Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

Find See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill

Find The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar

The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy

Find The Witches are Coming by Lindy West

Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Find Troll Hunting by Ginger Gorman

Find Why Women are Poorer Than Men and What We Can Do About It by Annabelle Williams

Fiction

Find A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum

Find The Orchardist’s Daughter by Karen Viggers

When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy

Find The Power by Naomi Alderman

Find The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood

Young Adult

Magpie by Eve Ainsworth

Find Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

Kanopy – documentaries

Hitting Home - A Critical Look into the Domestic Abuse Cycle

Hummingbird: Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence in Brazil

She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry

Brazen Hussies

GTFO: Get the F**k Out

Informit – Explore academic articles and journals free with your library card (access Informit with your library membership)

Ensuring Access to Justice for Women Experiencing Family Violence Beyond the Pandemic

‘The Devil is in the Level’: Understanding Inequality in Australia’s Film, TV and Radio Industries

Silenced Mothers: Exploring Definitions of Adolescent to Parent Violence and Implications for Practice

The Criminalisation of Coercive Control: The Power of Law

Podcasts and radio shows

The Gender Card - podcast by Griffith University’s Gender Equality Research Network

Women on the Line - 3CR Local radio show covering women’s issues from around the world

Bodies podcast– Season 2 Episode 5: Invisible Impact - Stacie escaped her abusive partner. But eight years later, her inner world was still in disarray. Why wasn’t she better? And why did it take her so long to leave?

Reading Women podcast – Interview with Meena Kandasamy

Other resources

The Conversation – Articles on family violence

See What You Made Me Do – SBS on Demand - Available in Hindi, Arabic, Korean, Punjabi, Vietnamese and Simplified Chinese

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Episode Eleven Show Notes

Main title discussed

Find Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Interview with Diversity and Literacy Librarian

Find Fa Yi Qin Ming series by Qin Ming

Wo Zai Jiao Luo Hao An Xin by Yuri Yokomizu

Go to the Go to the OverDrive Chinese Reading Room

BookMatch - climate change and environment

Find The Breeding Season by Amanda Niehaus

Find Ghost Species by James Bradley

Find The Last Migration by Charlotte McConaghy

Find Into the Woods: Trees in Photography by Martin Barnes

Find Animals Make Us Human edited by Leah Kaminskyp and Meg Keneally

Reviews

Find Laurinda by Alice Pung

Find Nobody (DVD)

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Episode Ten Show Notes

Main title discussed

Find Disoriental by Negar Djavadi

Interview with Community Engagement Officer - Heritage

Find City of Opportunity: the making of the City of Greater Dandenong by Martin Curtis

View the History and Cultural Heritage Page

View the Digital Archive and the Graham Southam Collection

BookMatch

Find Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

Find The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

Find The Beijing Bureau by Trevor Watson

Find I know I am rude: Prince Philip’s Life in his own words by Nigel Cawthorne

Find Girl, 11 by Amy Suiter Clarke

Reviews

Find The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do

Find Becoming by Michele Obama

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Episode Nine Show Notes

Main title discussed

Find Suspiria (DVD) based on the book by Dario Argento

Also available on Kanopy

Reviews

Find Spark Joy: an Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying by Marie Kondo

Find Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan

BookMatch recommendations - for someone who likes crime stories

Find The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro

Find The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey

Find Light Seekers by Femi Kayode

Find The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka

Find Aunty Lee’s Delights by Ovidia Yu

Also mentioned

Find Beautiful Thing: Portrait of a Bombay Bar Dancer by Sonia Faleiro. Also published with the subtitle: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars

Find The Girl by Sonia Faleiro

South Asia Speaks

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Episode Eight Show Notes

Main title discussed

Borderlanders by Gillian Polack

Reviews

Find Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo

Find The Mothers by Genevieve Gannon

BookMatch recommendations

Find Disoriental by Negar Djavadi

Interview with Negar Djavadi on Lithub

Find Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Find The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

Find Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

Access Lambda Literary

Access Them.us

Find She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya

Find A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian

Find In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Find Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

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Episode Seven Show Notes

Main title discussed

Find Born Into This by Adam Thompson

Also mentioned

Find Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan

Find A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop

Find Kim Jiyoung - Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

Find How to Endo : a Guide to Surviving and Thriving with Endometriosis by Bridget Hustwaite

Reviews

Find The Family Law by Benjamin Law

Interview with Jesse Oliver

Find Invisible Boys by Holden Sheppard

Antipoet - Allan Boyd ( Website)

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Episode Six Show Notes

Main title discussed

Find The Yield by Tara June Winch

Interview with Leah Jing McIntosh

Access Liminal Magazine Instagram: @Liminalmag

Find Collisions : Fictions of the Future : a Liminal anthology by edited by Leah Jing McIntosh

Find Memorial by Bryan Washington

Find Hot Milk by Deborah Levy

Find The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Find The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Find Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan

Reviews

Find Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman

Find The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

BookMatch recommendations

For someone who likes World Stories (Translated works), Literary Fiction and Horror

Find Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker

Review of When I Hit You from The Wire

Find Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

Find Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin, translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell

Find Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

Find The Stranger, (also known as The Outsider by Albert Camus)

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Episode Five Show Notes

Main titles discussed

Find Invisible Planets: an anthology of contemporary Chinese science fiction translated and edited by Ken Liu

Find Broken Stars translated and edited by Ken Liu

The Hidden Girl and other stories by Ken Liu

Also mentioned

Find Flatland : a romance of many dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott

Dark City (1998 Movie)

Find Inception (DVD)

Find Arrival by Ted Chiang (Book and DVD)

Love Death and Robots (Netflix Series) - includes short film 'Good Hunting' by Ken Liu

Spectology (podcast)

Clarkesworld (podcast)

Electric Dreams - Season One (DVD) - based on the stories of Philip K. Dick

Interview with Warren Loorham

Voice At The Table - Training and advocacy for people with cognitive disabilities - 'Nothing about us, without us'

VATT Chat Podcast - Top tips for inclusive training

Check out Warren's artworks on Instagram at Wozart2018

Anatomy for the Artist - Sarah Simblet

Find Sophie's World: a novel about the history of philosophy by Jostein Gaarder

Find The consolations of Philosophy by Alain De Botton

Reviews

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003) directed by Judy Irving - Kanopy streaming movie

Find The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein

Kanopy streaming movies

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

BabaKiueria (1986) directed by Don Featherstone

Visit our website to use Kanopy Streaming Movies for free

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Episode Four Show Notes

Main title discussed

Find Salt Fat Acid Heat: Mastering Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat

Also mentioned

Find Where Cooking Begins: Uncomplicated Recipes to Make You a Great Cook by Carla Lalli Music

Find A Table for Friends by Skye McAlpine

Home Cooking Podcast - Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway

BookMatch recommendations

To a patron that likes Suspense, Fantasy, Adventure, Crime and Mystery

Find The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood

Find The Arsonist: A mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper

Find The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

Find The Nowhere Child by Christian White

Find Talon by Julie Kagawa

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Episode Three Show Notes

Main titles discussed

Find Rat Queens Volume 1 - Sass and Sorcery - Kurtis Wiebe

Find Rat Queens. Volume two, The far reaching tentacles of N'Rygoth - Kurtis Wiebe

Also mentioned

Find Garfield by Jim Davis

Find Archie by Mark Waid

Find Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce

Find Dungeons and Dragons

Find A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Interview with Shegofa Rahimi

See Shegofa’s artwork and tutorials - Visit Shegofa's Facebook page

Shegofa recommends

Find Saadat Hasan Manto (Punjabi)

Find Leonardo da Vinci

Find Picasso

Find Vincent Van Gogh

Book reviews

Find An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

BookMatch recommendations

Find Hitler's Daughter by Jackie French

Find Pennies for Hitler by Jackie French

Find Goodbye Mr. Hitler by Jackie French

Find The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

Find The Boy At The Top Of The Mountain by John Boyne

Find Felix and Zelda Series, (Once series) by Morris Gleitzman

Find Angel Mage by Garth Nix

The Austen Project

Find Eligible: a modern retelling of pride and prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld

Find Emma by Alexander McCall Smith

Find Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope

Find Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid

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Episode Two Show Notes

Main title discussed

Find The Godmother by Hannelore Cayre

Also mentioned

Find Matilda by Roald Dahl

Find The Outsider by Albert Camus

Find Scarface - DVD

Find Richard Dawkins

Find The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Discussion with the Content Management Librarian

Access the Library Catalogue

Reviews

Find The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall

Find The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

Also mentioned

Find The Complete Maus (graphic novel) by Art Spiegelman

New and emerging authors discussion

Find The Dry by Jane Harper

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

The Survivors by Jane Harper

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

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Episode One Show Notes

Main title discussed

Find Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Discussion with library technician acquisitions

Find Bill Bryson’s travel memoirs on BorrowBox

Reviews

Find They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Find The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

BookMatch recommendations

To a patron that liked thrillers, biography, horror and historical fiction

Find The Blackbird Season by Kate Moretti

Find Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner

Find The Fireman: a Novel by Joe Hill

Find The Cavendon Luck by Barbara Taylor Bradford

Find The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

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