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Our schools program offers schools and other organisations a chance to get inside key texts in the years 9-12 curricula. Sophie and Jonty also bring students and school communities into the life of a literary podcast.
Please contact us to find out more about booking an eduction event. 

Sophie chats with author Charlotte Wood for Princeton University

Contemporary Australian author, Charlotte Wood, is described by Sophie as a 'national treasure'. Together, they talk about Charlotte's 2024 Booker Prize-shortlisted novel 'Stone Yard Devotional'.

Watch the recording here.

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Our educational mission is to share classic literature with as many people as possible. 

We both have long careers as teachers - Sophie in university classrooms around the world and Jonty through countless public educational programs on television and radio. We guide listeners clearly and accessibly. We keep things entertaining and relatable.

 

Schools programs include:

  • class-length presentation from Sophie and Jonty with headlines about the “secret life” of the text - biography, history and critical takes. Episodes already recorded will be available for student/teacher/parents to listen.

  • 15-20 minutes of questions for students

  • Internship opportunity for senior students. We guide students to guest-edit an episode, write show-notes, design and execute social media roll-out.

  • Optional “advanced reading seminar” for teaching faculty, similar to 90-minute seminars and classes Sophie and Jonty teach.

Join our Patreon

We’ve started a Patreon so our listeners can help keep Secret Life of Books delivering enjoyable episodes each week. We love doing the show and want to keep up the level of high quality research, writing and production.

Most of all we want to keep the laughs coming.

Supporters at any level are the life-blood of Secret Life of Books as we grow, so please click the link to the Patreon account and become part of the show in a truly tangible way.

To express our gratitude and to bring you into the growing Secret Life of Books community, we’re offering a monthly Book Club for supporters. This happens on the third Tuesday of the month at 7pm AEST. You can send in questions ahead of time, join with a group, and we will record the sessions and make them available for members of the Secret Life of Books Club.

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