First Tuesday Book Club is an Australian television show that discusses books ostensibly in the style of a domestic book club. Hosted by journalist Jennifer Byrne, it uses the panel format made popular in The Glass House with two regular members — book reviewer Jason Steger and author/blogger Marieke Hardy — and two guest members. The show first aired on the ABC on 1 August 2006 and is scheduled as a monthly program.

Books reviewed

2006

• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis — August 2006
• The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald — August 2006
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón — September 2006
• Longitude by Dava Sobel — September 2006
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson — October 2006
• The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis — October 2006
• The Mission Song by John le Carré — November 2006
• The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard — November 2006
• The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan — December 2006
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins — December 2006

2007

• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones — March 2007
• The Solid Mandala by Patrick White — March 2007
• In The Company of The Courtesan by Sarah Dunant — April 2007
• The Secret River by Kate Grenville — April 2007
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy — May 2007
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut — May 2007
• The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall — June 2007
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll — June 2007
• The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver — July 2007
• Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier — July 2007
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini — August 2007
• The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare — August 2007
• The Broken Shore by Peter Temple — September 2007
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville — October 2007

2008

• The Memory Room by Christopher Koch — March 2008
• Naked by David Sedaris — March 2008
• Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis — April 2008
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks — April 2008 ^[1]

Guests

Guests have included Jesuit priest Frank Brennan, actress Penny Cook, gardener Peter Cundall, Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward, feminist Germaine Greer, author Di Morrissey, enfant-terrible John Safran, musician and broadcaster Lindsay 'The Doctor' Mc Dougall, politician Malcolm Turnbull and actor/writer/director Richard E Grant.

See also

• List of Australian television series
• The Book Group - British comedy

References

1. ^ First Tuesday — ABC TV

External links

• official website

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