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Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald are Melbourne-based writers and podcasters. In March 2018, they launched Australia’s top pop-culture podcast, Shameless. The following year, they founded Shameless Media, which has gone on to become one of the country’s biggest youth media networks; and in 2020, they wrote the bestselling non-fiction book, The Space Between. As of May 2023, Shameless Media has almost 70 million podcast downloads and over one million social media followers.

Books by Zara McDonald

The Space Between

SHORTLISTED FOR ABIA GENERAL NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021

From the creators of the hit podcast Shameless: relatable ruminations on the mess, the madness and the magic of not-quite-adulthood.

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The creators of Shameless and bestselling authors of The Space Between bring you a collection of their most popular advice columns from Ask Shameless.

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