Join us for the ABC Friends WA Annual Dinner 2025.

Venue: Henry’s Loft, Subiaco Hotel, 465 Hay Street Subiaco (corner of Hay and Rokeby Road)

There is a lift and a bar in the room.

Time and date: 6 to 10 pm, Wednesday 22 October

Price: Members $55, non-members $60

Menu: Three-course dinner, shared selection to start then choice from menu - v iew the menu here

Claire Nichols is the Perth-based presenter of The Book Show on ABC Radio National, a weekly podcast and radio show that features in-depth conversations with the best fiction authors from around the world.

Claire has spent nearly two decades at the ABC. She started in the Perth newsroom, reading local news bulletins, and reporting for radio and TV news, as well as the current affairs program 7.30WA. During this period, she developed her expertise as a specialist arts reporter, winning consecutive WA Media Awards for arts journalism.

Claire worked as a producer for ABC Radio Perth before moving to ABC Radio National in 2015, where she was the WA news reporter for Fran Kelly’s Breakfast program, as well as a local arts correspondent for the cultural program Books and Arts.

In 2018, Claire was named as host of the new Radio National program, The Book Show. In her eight years in the role she has interviewed many of the world’s best fiction writers, including Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Michael Ondaatje, Marian Keyes, Tim Winton, Zadie Smith and Roddy Doyle.

Claire regularly travels to writers’ festivals across Australia, where she has hosted live events with authors including David Nicholls, Liane Moriarty, Celeste Ng and John Boyne. She has also been a regular fiction reviewer for ABC Radio National Breakfast and ABC Perth.

Before landing at the ABC, Claire worked in commercial radio as a news reader and reporter. She had stints at 6PR and 96FM in Perth, 2SM in Sydney and 2LM in Lismore. She also had a brief career in print media in regional WA.

In her life outside media, Claire is a keen dancer, choreographer and musical theatre tragic.