First Tuesday Book Club
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First Tuesday Book Club is an Australian television show that discusses books ostensibly in the style of a domestic book club. Hosted by journalist Jennifer Byrne, it uses the panel format made popular in The Glass House with two regular members -- book reviewer Jason Steger and author/blogger Marieke Hardy -- and two guest members. The show first aired on the ABC on Tuesday, 1 August, 2006 and is scheduled as a monthly program.
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[edit] Books reviewed
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis - August 2006
- The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald - August 2006
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón - September 2006
- Longitude by Dava Sobel - September 2006
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson - October 2006
- The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis - October 2006
- The Mission Song by John le Carre - November 2006
- The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard - November 2006
[edit] Guests
Guests so far have included Jesuit priest Frank Brennan, actress Penny Cook, gardener Peter Cundall, Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward, feminist Germaine Greer, author Di Morrissey, enfant-terrible John Safran, and politician Malcolm Turnbull.
[edit] See also
- List of Australian television series
- The Book Group - British comedy
