Here is another in my special podcasts of BAD crime authors ( You can find another on the Podcasts page!)
Margaret Hickey with ‘Cutter’s End’, Suzanne Leal with ‘The Deceptions’ ‘ and Rae Cairns with ‘The Good Mother‘. These three authors will be appearing again at BAD with new novels so I have featured them together. The BAD crime writers festival starts next Wednesday at the Mitchell Library in Sydney. Look up their website for all the details https://www.badsydney.com/
Recorded at BAD 2022
Matthew R. Davis is an author and heavy metal musician who has published over 70 short stories and poems. This novel follows a young man spiraling disillusionment with life in a small town, and the the danger he places himself and others in as he attempts to change his life.
Recorded at Conflux 2023
The inhabitants of Earth have divided into human and non human and have been at war for a thousand years with Heaven. The few remaining human tribes are devolving, as they scratch out a living on a destroyed plant. They live a timid existence until Ferren, different from the others, finds a fallen angel . Befriending her, he bravely sets out to discover the truth about his world.
Recorded at Conflux 2023
As the virtual world becomes increasingly sophisticated and seductive, will we finally have to choose between ‘meat life’ and Gaia- where everything is beautiful and no-one ever ages? A beautifully written debut novel that explores what it means to be ‘human’.
Recorded at Conflux 2023
It’s one thing to work as a private detective wearing a disguise- but what if you can completely change your form and face at will? Phillip Berrie’s protagonist thinks he is unique , a ‘mutant’, but in investigating another case suddenly finds out a confronting truth about his possible origins and the source of his ‘superpower’.
Recorded at Conflux 2023
The ‘Ghost Bird’ in this novel is an indigenous story told to children around the fire at night. For two sisters, mirror twins , it becomes real when one of them mysteriously disappears. The remaining sister sets out to find her, but must be brave enough to break taboos surrounding the incident.
Recorded at Conflux 2023
In this collection of Speculative fiction you will discover all kinds of worlds ! Kaaron Warren reads from her short story here but she also has many full length novels in publication.
Recorded at Conflux 2023
Jeff Goodell has written a number of best selling and highly regarded books to do with climate change. In this book he outlines just what an increase in temperatures is going to mean for our future. If we don’t reverse this as soon as possible, the consequences could be catastrophic for all life on our planet. He does give us some rays of hope and ways we can begin to prepare for this and cope.
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023
Jacinta Parsons reaches for mythological archetypes like ‘the witch’ ,’the mother’, and ‘the slut’ to demonstrate how women have been placed in boxes all their lives .Much more than a memoir about ageing.
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023
Independent journalist, author and filmmaker Antony Loewenstein shows with revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting how Israel is using Palestine as a laboratory for their military testing using surveillance, home demolitions, indefinite incarceration all using high-tech tools which they then export to other nations.
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023