The first Book Club of 2015 comes to your from Perth Writers' Festival with international guests Elizabeth Gilbert and John Lanchester joining Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger to discuss new release Clade by Australian author James Bradley. Elizabeth Gilbert brings along her classic pick, Barbara Trapido’s delightful 1982 coming-of-age debut, Brother of the More Famous Jack.

This month, THE BOOK CLUB host Jennifer Byrne and regular panellists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by award-winning writer and slam poetry champion Maxine Beneba Clarke whose 2014 collection of short stories Foreign Soil is short-listed for this year’s Stella Prize. Also joining the club is host of ABC News24’s The World and author of Storyteller, Zoe Daniel. This episode The Book Club discusses new release An Untamed State by Roxane Gay and Australian classic My Place by Sally Morgan

In May, The Book Club host Jennifer Byrne plus regular panellists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by former political speechwriter and award-winning author of The Bush, Don Watson. Completing the panel is international best-selling author Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies, The Husband’s Secret). This club discuss Malcolm Knox’s very recent novel The Wonder Lover and Don Watson brings along the classic, If This Is a Man by Primo Levi.

This month The Book Club's Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by stellar Melbourne Writers Festival guests, writers Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Psychopath Test, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed) and Will Self (The Book of Dave, Umbrella, Shark) to discuss Preparation for the Next Life - the startling debut novel from Atticus Lish. Jennifer brings along this month’s classic, a graphic memoir from The New Yorker magazine cartoonist Roz Chast called Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

This month THE BOOK CLUB host Jennifer Byrne and regular panellists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by celebrity chef and cookbook author Adam Liaw. Book Club favourite, actress and entertainer Virginia Gay, completes the panel to discuss Canadian author Patrick deWitt’s new release, Undermajordomo Minor. Adam brings along this month’s classic - Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift.

This month THE BOOK CLUB is part of ABC On The Road coming to you from The Garden City, Toowoomba, Queensland. Host Jennifer Byrne and regular panellists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by acclaimed playwright Hannie Rayson and Queensland journalist and author Matthew Condon to discuss the provocative new novel The Natural Way of Things by Australian author Charlotte Wood, and the classic Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.

In December, The Book Club bring’s you an hour long end of year special, FIVE OF THE BEST. Jennifer Byrne and regular guests Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by ABC TV’s own Leigh Sales, and Wheeler Centre director Michael Williams to discuss five books handpicked by our panellists to kick start your holiday reading. Jennifer's pick is Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski, Marieke’s choice is Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread, Jason brings The Whites by Harry Brandt (aka Richard Price), Leigh is bringing along Relativity by Antonia Hayes and Michael rounds out the list with A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. We will also announce the top five books as voted by our audience. This special episode will culminate with the poll result for your favourite new book in 2015 – your FIVE OF THE BEST.