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Jeanette Winterson asks how AI will give new meaning to ghost stories and Kate Grenville reflects on a lifetime of writing and how accepting failure has been key to her success. Jeanette Winterson is best known for her novels Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, The Stone Gods and Frankissstein. Her long fascination with mortality, religion and technology have come together in a new book of short stories, Night Side of the River (Jonathan Cape), which considers what technology might mean for the future of ghost stories. First broadcast 2 October 2023 Celebrated Australian author Kate Grenville (Sec...

City council joins long list of book censorship in Australia

This month's Cumberland council book ban in Western Sydney shocked much of the country, but around the world the leash can be a lot tighter on literature that's deemed dangerous by autocracies and religious extremists. In a five-part series, producer of the Book Show Sarah L'Estrange has explored book bans, from the United States, the censorship of web-fiction in China, even the story of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Guest:Sarah L'Estrange, host of 'Banned Books'

With the rise of social media and platforms that encourage copying trends and sharing material, plagiarising is more rife than ever. So what does it take for someone to do it blatantly? And could we all be doing it without realising?

Find out how to catch a plagiarist in the first of our series Fakes and Frauds - the book scandals that rocked Australia. And Australian prize winning author, Alexis Wright on her new novel Praiseworthy, an epic Aboriginal fable.