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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

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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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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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