James and Ashley Stay at Home

In episode 122, Ashley asks fellow crime fiction fan and podcaster what it's like to find yourself as a fictional character in a new novel from one of your favourite authors. 

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When bestselling author Sulari Gentill was diagnosed with stage four cancer, she decided to write the ending she wanted. In episode 121, she joins James and Ashley to discuss her seventeenth novel, F…

In episode 120, bestselling author Michelle Prak discusses how she set her latest thriller against the backdrop of Australia’s housing crisis and why she writes flawed, sometimes rash characters. 

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In episode 119, debut author Nathan Dunne joins us to discuss his memoir, When Nothing Feels Real, which shares the story of his onset of severe depersonalisation and his quest to find a diagnosis.

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Ashley's brand new thriller Like, Follow, Die is out now as an audiobook exclusive from Audible! In episode 118, Ashley discusses the book's unique development and what it was like working with an en…

Award-winning author Melanie Cheng joins James and Ashley to discuss her writing practice, her pet rabbit, and The Burrow, her 'most personal book' and its many parallels to her own life. 

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If you missed hearing Ashley and James live in conversation at the launch of Cold Truth, we've got the full event recording for you here, complete with fake nazi invasions, terrifying cybercrime stat…

How did Jay Martin go from an award-winning memoir to a fiction manuscript she ultimately abandoned? And what did she learn that helped her craft her debut novel, Boom Town Snap? 

Jay talks with Ashl…

Lynne Ainsworth is the founder of Writers at the Woolshed, an emerging writer, and a person who 'loves hanging out with people who read and write'. She loves it so much, she not only created a pop-up…

How does having a stalker change your life? We talk with bestselling novelist Pip Drysdale about her latest novel 'The Close-Up,' its real-life inspirations, and how surviving a stalker shifted her w…

What considerations come into choosing to have a baby for creatives? And once baby enters the picture, how do you balance parenting with your creative practice? 

We ask Dinuka McKenzie and Lee Kofman…

Cold Truth, Ashley's new thriller, is out now. James and Ashley discuss just how difficult writing this book was, plus why she chose to set in a city that makes headlines for being colder than the su…

'I always knew I wanted to write a novel, but I didn’t have any ideas that I thought could extend to a novel-length work.' 

In episode 110, Michelle See-Tho shares her journey from aspiring writer to…

Here it is - the annual end-of-year book recommendation extravaganza! This bumper episode contains every single edition of 'What are you reading?' from 2024, in which James, Ashley and guests discuss…

It's that time of year again - the annual Bed on a Plinth Awards, in which James and Ashley discuss the best books they've read in the last twelve months! Use this particularly eclectic list to gathe…

'It's not a mental illness. It's actually a creative coping mechanism.' 

What's it like to discover other people living in your own head? In Maggie Walters' debut memoir, she describes her life with …

'That was the most naive, worst decision I've ever made in my life, because the disease came back with a vengeance.' 

In episode 106, Ashley speaks to award-winning memoirist Simone Amelia Jordan abo…

In ep 105, James and Ashley interview Arna Radovich, the author of Limits of Forgetting, a collection of stories interwoven with themes of memory, grief and reflection. Arna shares insights into how …

'For me, the only decision was to put myself out there and become more of service to others.'  

Olympic gold medallist Michael Klim speaks with James about his diagnosis and life with CIDP, the same …

What's it like putting your creative work out in the world and discovering that some people hate it? 

In episode 103 of James and Ashley Stay at Home, international bestselling author Robyn Harding j…