Books That Made Us: Dec 7

In the final episode of Books That Made Us, Claudia Karvan delves into power – its abuse and misuse in our stories.

This includes the toxic masculinity in books such as Puberty Blues and Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies to the corrupt power of the Catholic church in Thomas Keneally’s Crimes of the Father. Also profiled is Frank Hardy’s Power Without Glory.

Karvan then discovers how the power of the pen is changing hands and an explosion of First Nations writing is changing the way Australia sees itself. This includes The Yield by Tara June Winch, Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance.

8:30pm tonight on ABC.