Two great musical memoirs from Tex Perkins in ‘Tex’ and Mark Holden in ‘My Idol Years’. Language warning on the Tex Perkins one as he recounts his early years performing around Sydney.
Edition Nine: Sebastian Smee –‘ The Art of rivalry’ and Ashleigh Wilson –‘Brett Whiteley –Art, Life and the other thing.’
Two fascinating books on artists’s lives. In ‘The Art of Rivalry’,Sebastian Smee shows us how the relationships between artists can influence what we see in our museums, and how art movements have evolved by artists interacting and competing with each other.
Ashleigh Wilson delves ever deeper into Brett Whiteley’s tumultuous life to reveal the man behind the artist in “Brett Whiteley- Art, Life and the other Thing”..
Featured music tracks: “Talk About Love” –My Friend the Chocolate Cake, “All the colours’ by Neil and Tim Finn
Penelope Janu – In at the Deep End, Susan Lattwein – – Lost in Kakadu, Kendall Talbot Arafura- Blood, the wet and tears.
Three romance novelists go into the great wild outback of Australia and the ocean . Hear them read from their work and discuss it afterward. Music track from Kasey chambers ‘Nullabor Song’.
David Leser reads from his memoir ‘To Begin to Know- in the shadows of my father’, in which he attempts to understand the forces that shaped his father’s childhood and their subsequent relationship. Nikki Gemmel reads from ‘After’, an astonishing examination of the aftermath of her mother’s suicide. ( This interview and read deals with the subject of assisted dying .)
Catherine Hein – ‘The Healing Season’ – a romance novel about an agricultural scientist in a country town and and Kelly Hunter ?’Wish’- classic ‘ new beginnings’ romance inthe country.
Muic:
‘The day that I lost You’ ? Suzannah Espie; ” Back to the Sun” -Ange Takats
Tracey Spicer – ‘The Good Girl Stripped Bare ‘ ,and Mary-Lou Stephens ?’ Sex, drugs and Meditation’ and Suzanne Leal ? ‘The Teacher’s Secret’
Three female authors dealing with issues in the media and education workplace, fiction and non-fiction and even some comedy! Music’Change’ ?Jodi Martin; ‘Some say I got Devil ‘ ?Inge Liljestrom.
Sophie Hardcastle and Mark Winter write Young Adult fiction .
In ‘Breathing Underwater’ Sophie uses her considerable experience as a surfer to write lyrically about her heroine’s struggles, and in ‘The Road to Winter’, Mark Smith places his 15 year old male protagonist into a dystopian future, where most adults have died.
Sebastian Smee ? delves into history to reveal strange and fascinating influences that famous artists have had on each other in ‘ The Art of rivalry’ and Ashleigh Wilson reveals the real Brett in ?’Brett Whitely ?Art, Life and the other thing’ . Music ‘Talk About Love’ ?My Friend the Chocolate Cake, ‘All the colours’ Neil and Tim Finn.
Rajith Savanadasa was born in Sri Lanka and is now living in Australia. His novel ‘Ruins’ follows the lives on one family in modern Sri Lanka. Sohila Sanjani spent nearly 30 years writing down her memories of her previous family life in Persia ( Iran) in her book ‘Scattered Pearls’.
L.A Larkin writes thrillers around the issue of environmental crime and ecological disasters. Her books, such as Devour, have strong female protagonists. In a twist, Michael Robotham wrote his book ‘The Secrets she keeps’ in a first person female voice. He loves to analyse the psychology of people who commit crimes more than than depicting the crime itself. Hear them both talk about their work and then read a passage just for you. Music track in this episode is ‘Rhythm and Rhyme’ by Abbie Cardwell
