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Your daily journey into global arts, culture and entertainment, with Harriett Gilbert and Mark Coles.

Today's Strand is a shortened version of World Book Club featuring Kate Grenville. She talks about her best-selling novel The Secret River. Her first work for five years since she won the Orange Prize, The Secret River was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize soon after publication.

Set in 1806 and based on the true story of Kate鈥檚 first Australian ancestor, this is a dramatic and evocative historical novel set between the slums of nineteenth-century London and the convict colonies of Australia. Told through the eyes of William Thornhill and his family The Secret River examines the timeless themes of ownership, belonging and identity against a backdrop of Aboriginal Australia.