A photographer concerned with documenting the visible evidence of climate change lands on a small island in Northern Europe with her two teenage children. In the first few moments of her landing she witnesses and records a terrible tragedy. Then the house they are given to live in is full of strange markings from the past, carved into the wood of the beams. A novel of changing social mores tangled with superstitions from the past.
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023
Amie Kaufman’s heroine is a sailor, a shipowner and a magician. This is the introduction to an epic saga that has been translated into 30 languages and won multiple awards
Recorded at Conflux 2023
When a mother of two begins to act strangely at first her husband is advised ‘it’s just menopause’. But when her strange behavior escalates, and a a body is found at the foot of the cliffs in town, she becomes a prime suspect. But there are many others in the town who also had motivation.
Recorded at BAD Crime Writers Festival Sydney 2023
Detective Sergeant Kate Miles is back from maternity leave and feeling stress from her personal life and from the station chief. With increasing pressure from the media to solve a high profile case involving a missing baby she is pushed to her limits.
Recorded at BAD Crime Writers Festival Sydney 2023
It’s a great title – and it perfectly describes the real life experiences of Tim Watson-Munro a criminal Psychologist. Weird, funny and terrifying true tales as Watson-Munro reveals some of the warped minds behind some of the country’s major crimes. In this read, Tim is trapped on a small plane with passenger terrified of flying.
Recorded at BAD Crime Festival Sydney 2023
A psychiatrist with a bipolar disorder suspects the police have arrested the wrong person in a murder case. An insightful story about how women are often more vulnerable than men when it comes to mental health issues, written by an author who has had over 25 years of clinical and research experience in perinatal psychiatry.
Recorded at BAD Crime Writers Festival Sydney 2023
So when is the ‘perfect age’ in history? Some of us look backward , but previous generations looked forward to an imagined perfect world. If we went forward in the future, how long before we began to notice it was not perfect? What if you could go to what you thought was the ‘perfect age’ in time?
Recorded at Conflux 2023
A crime story that leads us from a gay sauna, to the intrigues of of an international AIDS conference. This is celebrated gay activist Altman’s 17th book and draws on his considerable experience of the gay underworld and the political rivalry.
Recorded at BAD Crime Writers Festival Sydney 2023
We have all read and watched stories about the Vikings, but mainly about what the men in those societies did. What about the women? Turns out Viking women were a capable, fierce and fairly liberated lot who have been , up till now, not given their due in historical studies. All these stories are well researched case histories of real Viking women, dramatised and brought to life.
Recorded at Conflux 2023
Magpies that keep an eye on the community, cats that solve crimes, dog detectives, not to mention squirrels! A fun take on mystery and crime novels and just the thing to read on a hot day!
Recorded at Conflux 2023