Sunday Afternoon Book Club

Authors

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  Yann Martel

  Yann Martel is the author of a short story collection, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and of five novels, Self, Beatrice & Virgil, Life of Pi (for which he was awarded the 2002 Man Booker Prize), The High Mountains of Portugal and Son of Nobody.
  
  Martel also ran a guerilla book club with Stephen Harper, sending the former prime minister of Canada a book every two weeks for four years. The letters that accompanied the books were published as 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Martel lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with the writer Alice Kuipers and their four children.
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  Marieke Hardy

  Marieke Hardy is a screenwriter and playwright, having written for series such as Laid, The Family Law, and Seven Types of Ambiguity. Her adaptation of Dario Fo’s No Pay? No Way! premiered at the Sydney Opera House in 2020.
  
  She was co-curator of international literary salon Women of Letters and a panelist on the ABC's Book Club. She co-curates the monthly spoken word event Better Off Said.
  
  Her new play, Losing Face, opens at Melbourne Theatre Company in June 2026 and she is a 2015 recipient of the Sidney Myer Fellowship.
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  Michael Williams

  Michael Williams is the editor of The Monthly. He was previously the Artistic Director of Sydney Writers’ Festival. He has spent the past decade at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne as its founding Head of Programming in 2009 and then as its Director from September 2011. A regular host and interviewer for literary and ideas events around Australia, his background is in publishing and broadcasting. He has hosted two shows on ABC Radio National – Blueprint for Living (2015–2016) and Talkfest (2017–2018) – was a regular on ABC TV’s The Book Club, and remains a regular guest on ABC radio and TV. Michael has also worked as a Breakfast presenter for Melbourne’s 3RRR, as a member of the Australia Council’s Literature Board, in publishing in Australia and New York and has written extensively for The Guardian, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and elsewhere.
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  Jason Steger

  Jason Steger is a former regular panelist on ABC TV's The Book Club. He was books editor of The Age for 25 years.

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