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SPECIAL GUEST CO-HOST THIS WEEK: Kris Humphreys of Avenue Bookstore (in Albert Park, Elsternwick and Richmond)

We review our favourite books from 2025, in a range of categories

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OUR CHRISTMAS PODCAST SPECIAL

Live from The Continental Hotel, Sorrento.

- Caro and Corrie with guests Ross Lyon, Dwayne Russell, Rebecca Barnard and Anna “From the Op Shop” Barry

- $70 (includes drink on arrival and pass-around food)

- Wednesday December 17 5.30pm-7.30pm

- The Continental Hotel, Sorrento

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2025 – Talking Books

• Best Beach Read

Kris: A Great Act of Love – A Great Act of Love

Corrie: The Cazalet Chronicles – Elizabeth Jane Howard

• Best Crime/Thriller –

Kris: Mischance Creek – Garry Disher

Corrie: Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy

• Best Bio/Memoir –

Kris: Mother Mary Comes to Me – Arundhati Roymother

Corrie: Whitlam – Troy Bramston

• Best Non-Fiction –

Kris: When the Going Was Good – Graydon Carter

Corrie: The Shortest History of the United States of America – Don Watson

• Best Beautiful Book –

Kris: Melbourne Heritage Interiors – Kristine Slawinski, Phil Campbell

Corrie: 65000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art, Marcia Langton AO and Judith Ryan AM

• Best Junior Fiction –

Kris: Frances Bloom – Katrina Nannestad

Billie B Brown series - Sally Rippin

• Best Christmas Book for Little Readers

Kris: Here come the cousins – Maggie Hutchings

Corrie: Claris and the Christmas Surprise: A Claris Storybook – Megan Hess

• The Book We Most Want To Read of the Summer Holiday

Kris: The Elements – John Boyne

Corrie: The Heir Apparent – Rebecca Armitage

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BOOK: 2025 Best Literacy Fiction: Corrie and Chris reveal

Kris - The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny – Kiran Desai

Corrie – What We Can Know – Ian McEwan

SCREEN: 2025 Best Screen Adaptation of a Book we have seen this year

Kris: Small Things Like These

Corrie – The Thursday Murder Club

FOOD: 2025 Cookbooks We Love – Us again

Something From Nothing – Alison Roman

Corrie – Persiana Easy – Sabrina Ghayour

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