ABC Radio Adelaide Afternoons with Nikolai Beilharz

Pip Williams is the author of One Italian Summer, a critically acclaimed memoir of her family's travels in search of the good life. Her first novel, The Dictionary of Lost Words, based on her original research in the Oxford English Dictionary archives, was published in 2020 and became an international bestseller. The Bookbinder of Jericho is her second novel, a companion to The Dictionary of Lost Words. 

Susan Johnson is an Australian author of literary fiction, memoir, short stories and essays. Her ninth novel, From Where I Fell, was published in 2021 and was shortlisted for the Voss Literary Award. She has lived in Hong Kong, Paris, London and most recently in Greece. Her latest book is Aphrodite's Breath.

Walter Marsh is a journalist based in Tarntanya/Adelaide with a background in history and culture. A former editor and staff writer at The Adelaide Review and Rip It Up, his writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, and InDaily. He is the author of Young Rupert: The Making of the Murdoch Empire.

Jonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Lethem has published his stories and essays in the New Yorker, Harper‘s, Rolling Stone, Esquire and the New York Times, among others.