Something that happened a long tome ago comes to light. A moral dilemma about the indigenous past and white present. The author knows the country he writes about intimately and also has listened to the local Barkarjee stories of this region of western Victoria.
Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2022
Two brothers use their skills as miners to build tunnels for the troops. during World War One. This novel paints a vivid picture of the all too human cost of this war to rural Australian communities.
Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2022
Counselling could take a new form in the future, but new technology brings new risks.
Recorded at CONFLUX Canberra 2022
Suzanne Gervay calls this story a ‘timeslip’ – three teenagers discover a gold locket in their grandparent’s house and it sends them back in time to Budapest in 1944. Here they discover secrets their grandparents had never told them. Gervay writes from personal experience of Holocaust secrets kept in her own family.
Here is Suzanne Gervay’s “The Edge of Limits” – about a young man who has to face more than his own fears of a hostile landscape- he has to face himself.
Recorded at Storyfest 2023
CHILDREN’S BOOKOF THE YEAR 2023
BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
Craig Silvey has written a book for all ages but with especial appeal to those children ( and dogs!) who might feel they are not quite the same as others.
Recorded at Storyfest 2023
Sometimes our biggest foes are own bodies – Tim Baker learnt to live with illness and regained his health and confidence using cannabis oil.
His first experiment with hash cookies got a bit out of control!
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2022
Erna Walraven has had many hats, wildlife consultant, author, and now memoirist. This book makes you want o go now before the way of life she observes disappears entirely.
Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2022
International Women’s Day has just passed and it occurs to me that all women who are mothers or not possess Superpowers! This fun account of women who suddenly gain a portal to a parallel world – in the backyard, that grants wishes – need I go on! Needless to say, with Superpower comes Super Responsibility!
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2022
Wendy McCarthy is a leading light in feminism and politics in Australia. In this read she outlines the struggles to gain equality for women in the past and in the interview she hopes for more consolidation in the future.
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2022
As a nation we have an image of ourselves which p perhaps doesn’t quite match up to the reality. Are we a ‘classless’ society? Do we believe we are truly multicultural? Time for some navel gazing and soul searching and some deep honesty about our past, present and future.
Recorded at Kyogle Writers Festival 2022