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