Australian author of Addition, Toni Jordan, goes gambling with greyhounds in Tenderfoot, Richard Osman digs up the background to The Thursday Murder Club and critically acclaimed writer, Gail Jones on why she wrote the crime novel, The Name of the Sister.<a href="https://www.tonijordan.com/">Toni Jordan</a> is the Australian author of eight books including Addition, The Fragments and Dinner with the Schnabels. Her new novel, <a href="https://www.hachette.com.au/toni-jordan/tenderfoot">Tenderfoot</a>, is her most personal. It's told from the perspective of a child in 1970s Brisbane who's growing up amongst greyhounds and racing tracks and dealing with her parents' divorce. Toni reflects on her own life growing up at the TAB and why she turned to this personal story now.Some inspiration for ABC Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century: we revisit <a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-thursday-murder-club-9781405985840">The Thursday Murder Club</a> by the British writer and TV personality <a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/richard-osman">Richard Osman</a> which has been a massive hit since it was published in 2020, with three sequels and a movie adaptation out now starring Helen Mirren. Here on The Book Show Claire Nichols spoke to Richard right when the book was first published.Cast your vote in ABC Radio National's Top 100 Books <a href="https://top100books.abc.net.au/">here</a>.<a href="https://www.textpublishing.com.au/authors/gailjones">Gail Jones</a> is one of our most prolific and celebrated authors. Her novels have been shortlisted and awarded for many of the big literary awards but she's done something different in her latest book by writing a crime novel. In <a href="https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-name-of-the-sister">The Name of the Sister </a>a freelance journalist investigates the story of a nameless woman who's turned up on the side of the road in Broken Hill, unable to speak and clearly damaged by some sort of abuse. Gail reflects on a life in literature and why she became a writer later in life.

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