QBD Book Club
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Welcome to "QBD Book Club: The Podcast" a series by QBD Books, your favorite Australian book retailer. Each week, our host Victoria Carthew will interview your favorite authors and public figures, providing you with behind-the-scenes insight into your favorite stories.
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In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with JD Kirk to talk about his latest book, “A Killer of Influence”.
Following a convention in the Scottish Highlands, eight social media influencers vanish without a trace, leaving their followers and families in shock. And then, the livestreams begin. Broadcast live from their squalid underground cells, the young influencers are forced into a sadistic battle for survival. With each livestream, their captor pits them against each other in a twisted competition for likes. The influencer with the fewest positive reactions faces a grues ..read more
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In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with James Phelps to talk about his latest book, “Australian Ghost Stories”.
Discover haunting true crime stories of the supernatural and paranormal. In his award-winning narrative style, James Phelps has re-created the thrilling histories of some of Australia’s most haunted places and famous buildings, including Aradale Mental Hospital and its horrifying 126-year history.
To order “Australian Ghost Stories”, you can visit QBD Books in-store or online here: https://www.qbd.com.au/australian-ghost-stories-new-haunting-true-crime-storie ..read more
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In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Patricia Cornwell to talk about her latest book, “Identity Unknown”.
Dr Kay Scarpetta is back and devastated to learn that the murder victim is a man she once loved. Summoned to a theme park to collect the body, Scarpetta finds a bizarre scene with a crop circle of petals, his skin strangely red and is shocked to discover her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue. As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that, in her mind, is far more evil ..read more
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In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Jeffrey Archer to talk about his latest book, “An Eye For An Eye”.
In one of the most luxurious cities on earth, a billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night out is about to end in murder. And the British government is about to be plunged into crisis. In the heart of the British establishment, Lord Hartley lies dying, and his will triggers an inheritance with explosive consequences. Two deaths. Continents apart. No obvious connection. So why are they both at the centre of a master criminal’s plot for revenge ..read more
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In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Brooke Hardwick to talk about her latest book, “The Fog”.
Plagued my memories she can’t unravel and desperate to understand the breakdown of her marriage, Kate attends a 10-day writers retreat on a remote island in the Irish Channel determined to leave with answers. As the retreat’s director taps into the eerie mythology of the island, Kate becomes increasingly fascinated by him and her surrounds. But when the temperature plummets
and the strange therapy intensifies, Kate’s memories unspool into a series of disturbing flashbacks ..read more
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In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Ann Cleeves to talk about her latest book, “The Dark Wives”.
This chilling mystery novel opens as staff member Josh is found dead outside his place of work, Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens, in the early hours of the morning. Detective Investigator Vera Stanhope’s only clue is the disappearance of fourteen-year-old resident Chloe, and Vera struggles to believe a teenager could be responsible for the murder. But when a second body is found near the Three Dark Wives standing stones in the wilds of the Northumbrian countrysi ..read more
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In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Natalie Conyer to talk about her latest book, “Shadow City”.
In Sydney, a young woman’s body is found – beaten, tortured and tattooed with the image of a sun. In Cape Town, a young woman recruited to study in Sydney has gone missing. Sergeant Jackie Rose and suspended Detective Schalk Lourens join forces, exposing a trail of corruption and crime
stretching from the foreshore of Sydney’s iconic harbour back to South Africa and across the world. Together they encounter a minefield of manipulation set by an enemy more powerful and d ..read more
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In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Nikki Mottram to talk about her newest book “Killarney”.
When child protection worker Dana Gibson arrives in the rural town of Killarney, she has one goal in mind - locate the whereabouts of foster child Jayden Maloney. What she isn't anticipating is an unexpected attraction to her colleague's younger brother Sean, or to become embroiled in their simmering family feud. As Dana continues to ask questions, tensions peak with the rising flood waters and she soon realises that the tightknit community is not all that it seems. As long ..read more
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In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Louise Candlish to talk about her twisty new thriller, “Our Holiday”.
Charlotte and Perry have owned their clifftop holiday home in Pine Ridge for years. Now city friends Amy and Linus have bought a second home nearby and when the two families descend, they plan lazy days at the beach and evenings sipping rosé. But this summer is different. A group of locals – headed by the charismatic Robbie – will stop at nothing to make the second homeowners pay for their holiday. By the end of their break, marriages will be torn apart, friend ..read more
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In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with the lovely Diane Armstrong to talk about her brand-new book “The Wild Date Palm”.
While on a train journey across Turkey's Anatolian Plain during World War I, Shoshana Adelstein witnesses the slaughter of the Armenians and knows she has just come face to face with her destiny. Convinced that her Jewish community in a small outpost of the Ottoman Empire will soon meet a similar fate, she is desperate to save her people. Soon, she orchestrates an audacious plan… Can individuals affect the fate of nations? And when life is at stake ..read more