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Morning Book Reading

Daughters of Batavia by Stephanie Koens, 2025

Reader: Sue Farrelly

Winner of the Banjo Patterson Prize for Fiction. Perth, 2018: Tess, an English teacher, flies to the remote Abrolhos Islands for answers to the infamous Batavia shipwreck and her personal family crises. Amsterdam, 1628: Saskia, a young Dutch orphan, boards Batavia for a new life in the East Indies. She meets Aris Janez, the ship’s assistant surgeon. Tess, Saskia and Aris. How are the three lives linked?

Five episodes a week, Monday to Friday 9:30am repeated at 9:15pm

Catch up all five episodes in a row 12pm Saturday

Afternoon Book Reading

The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst, 1999

Reader: Philip Boyle

The true story of the building of all 14 of Scotland’s lighthouses by four generations of the family of Robert Louis Stevenson employing feats of construction, engineering and optics in unbelievably forbidding conditions. 

Five episodes a week, Monday to Friday 5pm

Catch up all five episodes in a row 4:30pm Saturday

Children / Young Adult Book Reading

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling, 1997.

Reader: Sue Farrelly

J K Rowling’s blockbuster story of the ‘boy who lived’ turned a generation of children back into readers. Harry discovers he is a wizard and this is the story of his first year at Hogwarts.

Two episodes a week, Monday 7:30pm repeated 4pm Tuesday and Wednesday 7:30pm repeated 4pm Thursday