First Tuesday Book Club

Tuesday, 04 November 2008 10:00pm

First Tuesday Book Club is ABC TV's nationally televised book club. Hosted by Jennifer Byrne it brings to the screen the pleasures that draw millions of clubbers with their shared love of reading. Debating the merits of November's two books are regulars Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger plus special guests, actor, director and writer; Brendan Cowell and writer Sophie Cunningham (Geography, Bird).

First Tuesday Book Club will be repeated on ABC2 – Sunday, November 09 at 7:00pm

Tuesday, 07 October 2008 10:00pm

First Tuesday Book Club is ABC TV's nationally televised book club.

Tuesday, 02 September 2008
10:00pm

Joining host Jennifer Byrne from the Melbourne Writers' Festival are First Tuesday Book Club regulars Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger plus guests Augusten Burroughs and Germaine Greer. The books up for discussion tonight are Julia Leigh's Disquiet and A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

First Tuesday Book Club is ABC TV's nationally televised book club. Hosted by Jennifer Byrne, it brings to the screen the pleasures that draw millions of clubbers worldwide with their shared love of reading.

First Tuesday Book Club will be repeated on ABC2 – Sunday, September 07 at 4:30pm

Tuesday, August 5 at 10pm on ABC1

FIRST TUESDAY BOOK CLUB is ABC TV’s nationally televised book club. Hosted by Jennifer Byrne it brings to the screen the pleasures that draw millions of clubbers worldwide with their shared love of reading.

Debating the merits of tonight’s two books are regulars Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger plus, The Chaser’s Chris Taylor and Federal Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner.

Books featured on the program:

Devil May Care

Devil May Care continues the story of the most iconic spy in literature. It was published to celebrate the centenary of creator Ian Fleming’s birth. The much anticipated book was released simultaneously across the globe on 28th May 2008, becoming an instant best-seller.

Tuesday, 05 August
10.00pm

First Tuesday Book Club is ABC TV's nationally televised book club. Hosted by Jennifer Byrne, it brings to the screen the pleasures that draw millions of clubbers worldwide with their shared love of reading. Debating the merits of tonight's two books are regulars Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger plus professional naughty boy, the Chaser's Chris Taylor and Federal Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner.

The first book being debated is Devil May Care which continues the story of the most iconic spy in literature. It was published to celebrate the centenary of creator Ian Fleming's birth. The much anticipated book was released simultaneously across the globe on 28th May 2008, becoming an instant best-seller.

The second book on this month's list was first published in 1953 and written by acclaimed Canadian-born writer Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March centres on a penniless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression.

Tuesday, 01 July
10.00pm

First Tuesday Book Club is ABC TV's nationally televised book club. Hosted by Jennifer Byrne, it brings to the screen the pleasures that draw millions of clubbers worldwide with their shared love of reading.
Debating the merits of tonight's two books are regulars Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger, plus the return of club favourite, comedian Judith Lucy, and former NSW Premier and book fiend Bob Carr.

Tuesday, 03 June
10.00pm

First Tuesday Book Club is ABC TV's nationally televised book club. Hosted by Jennifer Byrne it brings to the screen the pleasures that draw millions of clubbers worldwide with their shared love of reading.

Debating the merits of tonight's two books are regulars Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger, plus author and broadcaster Peter Fitzsimons and poet Johanna Featherstone.

The books up for discussion are the new Tim Winton novel Breath and Demons at Dusk by Peter Stewart.

Tuesday, 06 May 2008
10.00pm

First Tuesday Book Club is ABC TV's nationally televised book club. Hosted by Jennifer Byrne it brings to the screen the pleasures that draw millions of clubbers worldwide with their shared love of reading.
Debating the merits of tonight's two books are regulars Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger plus author and star of television and radio Wendy Harmer and award-winning crime writer Peter Corris.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. This complex and dark thriller was a best-seller in Sweden before being translated into English. It is the first in the Millennium Trilogy written by Stieg Larsson.

10pm Tuesday, 01 April 2008

First Tuesday Book Club is ABC TV's nationally televised book club.
Hosted by Jennifer Byrne, it brings to the screen the pleasures that draw millions of clubbers worldwide with their shared love of reading.
Debating the merits of tonight's two books are regulars Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger plus television and radio bad boy John Safran and award-winning crime writer Michael Robotham.
Books featured on the program:
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Jennifer Byrne returns to the book club with regulars Marieke Hardy (now co-hosting Triple J's national breakfast program) and Jason Steger (book editor of The Age). Joining the discussions are comedian and actor Judith Lucy (making her second visit) and barrister and human rights advocate Julian Burnside QC.

The books for discussion are Christopher Koch's The Memory Room and Naked by David Sedaris.

Christopher Koch is the author of The Year Of Living Dangerously, which won The Age Book of the Year Award and was made into a film by Peter Weir in 1983. He has twice won the Miles Franklin Award for Fiction, for The Doubleman (1985) and Highways To A War (1996).

06:00PM
FIRST TUESDAY BOOK CLUB: SUMMER SPECIAL
Sunday, 09 December 2007

The First Tuesday Book Club Summer Special is a one-hour treat for book lovers, giving viewers all the best summer reading ideas. Joining host Jennifer Byrne and regular book clubbers Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger is Scottish master of crime Ian Rankin, and Australia's favourite gardener, Peter Cundall.

Our book clubbers will reveal their best reads of 2007, and we will also feature a kids’ book club to find out what young readers have been getting their teeth into lately. Two brand new books will also be discussed; Ruth Rendell's Not in the Flesh, and Australian author Charlotte Wood's new novel, The Children.