Danielle is a highly committed animal rights activist. Her compassion and empathy infuse this beautiful book asking us all – where are we going, and who are we taking with us?
Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2022
With all the focus over the past few years on the health care system – here’s a (fictional) tale to really scare you! Susan White is a real life doctor (though not surgeon) and she finds plenty to intrigue the reader in this tale of skullduggery (sorry!) in a hospital that her protagonist, Carla has to solve at her peril.
Recorded at BAD Crime Festival Sydney 2022
If you want to create a sinister atmosphere for your novel – set it at the start in a country abattoir! Greg Woodland is an award winning screenwriter and it shows in this novel as every scene is intensely visual.
Recorded at BAD Crime Festival Sydney 2022
May Worth was a Queensland girl who became one of the greatest circus riding trick artists in history. This is her story told simply in pictures by another circus performer and author. The National Circus Festival was held in Mullumbimby last week so I want to send this one out to all circus lovers.
Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2022
Phil Brown is Arts Editor of the Courier Mail and has published a number of humorous travel stories. This book is part of a series of memoirs, this time covering the period 1963 to 1970 when he lived in Hong Kong where his father ran a construction company. With perfect recall Phil introduces us to the many entertaining characters that populated his childhood.
PHIL BROWN – The Read
Phil Brown – Interview
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2022
Margaret Hickey’s beleaguered Sergeant Mark Ariti has won Margaret the 2022 BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival Danger Prize for crime fiction. The novel is set in a small outback town where, in true crime tradition, people have mysteriously disappeared! Hickey’s character of Mark Ariti adds a special charm to this atmospheric thriller. Extra long read because it’s a winner!
Recorded at BAD Crime Festival Sydney 2022
What’s a young woman who sees a greater future than marrying one of the local dopehead boys to do? She goes to the local library, reads a lot of books, and falls in love with the idea of one last , incredible roadtrip with one of the heroes of the beat generation – Jack Kerouac.
Recorded at Kyogle Writers Festival 2022
The Theme of this year’s Byron Writers Festival was ‘Radical Hope’ – but Chelsea Watego wore a T- shirt with F….Hope emblazoned across it.
As she laughingly points out in the interview, no wonder they didn’t ask her to sit on that panel!
This read starts with a personal grief that she then extrapolates to the national grief of First Nations people – and she says -it is a deeper, unending grief- that needs more than two weeks leave to assuage.
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2022
Mark Tedeschi’s previous books have been novels that were reconstructed case histories of famous criminal cases- but this work is about a case that Mark himself prosecuted for. As Mark says in the interview, it is highly unlikely that a white, middle class woman with children will just ‘disappear’ – it is nearly always foul play.
For those of you who love Crime Fiction, the BAD crime festival is coming up September 8th at the Mitchell Library in Sydney. We will be there!
Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2022
Tim Dean tells us why chimpanzees would run things differently on social media, and how to get the most out of your Tim Tam. A deeply thoughtful look at why we are the way we are and why we maybe need to rethink ourselves.
Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2022