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Hebe De Souza – reading this Friday at Heritage House, Bangalow

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Author Hebe de Souza will  be talking about her her fascinating novel ‘ Black British’ on Friday October 28th at 5.30 pm at Heritage House in Bangalow. It’s a catered event so you have to book through Bookworms and Paper mites in Bangalow on 66871396.  A big thank-you to Caroline at the bookshop for giving us a copy of the book to giveaway on air today to a lucky Bay FM subscriber!

Click on the book cover to hear Hebe read for Narratives.

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Narratives for October

Modern life in Iran, children’s special fiction and an adult short story.

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Sohila Zanjani – Scattered Pearls

I so loved hearing Sohila read this extract in her delicate Persian accent. The story of a life lived between two countries and cultures.

 

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Susan Perrow – The A-Z collection of behaviour tales for  children.

One for parents of small children, Susan Perrow is internationally popular with her ‘therapeutic’ fiction.

 

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Virginia Miranda – ‘The Game’

A complete short story here from the Flash Fiction series.

Uploaded this week on the Narratives Library!

Three very different novels this week. Don’t forget to share!

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Kate Mildenhall -‘ Skylarking’

Based on a true story of two friends who grow up on a lighthouse cape.

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Rajith Savanadasa -‘ Ruins’

Fascinating story of a modern Sri Lankan family.

 

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Robert Dessaix -‘ What Days are For’

Robert Dessaix finds humour and makes amusing observations even as his life is seriously threatened.

New on The Narratives Library !

Here a more authors reading for you  for you to enjoy.

Each week there will be new entries. Go over and listen!

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Dominic Smith – The Last Painting of Sarah De Vos.

The connecting thread in this book   is a beautiful painting  – first we hear Dominic read  a description of this work and its provenance, and then we hear from the contemporary owner of the  work who has discovered it was removed and a fake substituted without his knowing.

 

The Wild Girl

Kate Forsyth – The Wild Girl

The  Wild Girl  is based on the true story of the Brother’s Grimm and their relationship with a young woman called   Dortchen Wild. Dortchen and Wilhelm Grimm are in love but have been prevented from marriage by her father. This is an extra long read of 11 minutes as Kate wanted to give us a whole chapter.

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Bob Brown – Green Nomads

And a beautiful photographic book with accompanying text by Bob Brown detailing his love of the Australian bush and his travels around the country.

New Authors this week reading for you On Narratives!

Here are the latest uploads of authors reading for 5 minutes from their own works. Click on the   Book Covers to take you to the reading!

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Angela Flournoy – The Turner House – Fiction

A ‘Haint’ is a southern term for a ghost or spirit – and in  the house  the Turner family inhabit in Detroit  in Angela Flournoy’s novel ,it is the children who claim to have witnessed this  aggressive materialization.

 

The Railway Man's Wife

Ashley Hay – The Railway Man’s Wife – Fiction

The Railway man’s wife is set in Thirroul, a coastal mining  town in southern nsw at the end of the second world war. The heroine Ani, struggles to keep her family together after her husband dies in a mining accident.

Black Water

Louise Doughty – Black Water – Thriller

Indonesia in 1965 was a a terrifying time for anyone deemed  a ‘communist’ . Here  the main character of the story, John Harper is being told  how many thousands of innocent villagers  met grisly ends , often by the words  of their own terrified neighbours.

 

The Women's Pages

 

Debra Adelaide – The Women’s Pages  – Fiction

Debra Adelaide’s heroine , Dove,  reads Wuthering Heights to her dying mother  in hospital and then becomes obsessed with writing herself.

New Authors on Narratives!

Each week there will be an upload of between 3 to 5 new authors on the Narratives site- here are this weeks offerings.

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Travels with my Guitar

Carl Cleves has read from his memoir  ‘Tarab’ of an hilarious and horrifying account of consulting a Faith Healer in South America .

 

 

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Peter Breen has read  from his soon to be published memoir ‘Candidates Disease’ in which we get an insiders account of the goings on in Federal Parliament during the last elections.

 

Heresy

David Lovejoy reads from ‘Heresy’ – a book that is both philosophical argument and fiction.