Monthly Archives: August 2018

Crime, New readings uploaded!

SULARI GENTILL – Crossing the Lines

Author Sulari Gentill

CONGRATULATIONS to Sulari Gentill winner of this year’s Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction!!

 

This week I am thrilled to post Sulari Gentill with her beautifully written crime novel ‘ Crossing the Lines’. The Ned Kelly Awards are Australia’s top awards for Crime Fiction and are held during the Melbourne Writers festival week.

Here is Sulari reading from her book ‘Crossing the Lines’ followed by a short interview which was recorded at this years Bellingen Writers Festival.

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Recorded at the Bellingen Writers festival 2018

 

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CAREY GILLAM – Whitewash

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If they make a movie on investigative journalist Carey Gillam’s life they had better get someone like Chloe Sevigny to play her! Blonde and glamorous and fiercely driven by what she perceives as injustice and corruption on the part of a global corporation – she is the  hope of thousands of people who are suffering from the effects of what they were told was a ‘relatively harmless” weedkiller- commercially known as Roundup. Banned in many European countries, America and Australia have yet to catch up -maybe after reading Carey’s thoroughly researched book they will come  to the same judgement as Europe. Three days after this interview and read , Monsanto was ordered to pay $239 million in damages to one of it’s victims. There may be many more cases .

Carey Gillam Interview

 

                                                              Author Carey Gillam

Carey Gillam reads from ‘Whitewash’

Recorded at the Byron writers Festival 2018

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Coming Soon!

The Narratives Team

has been at the

Byron Writers Festival!

The Narratives Team flaked out while waiting for site to clear on Sunday!

Beautiful sunshine, balmy breezes, lots of birdwatching  … and authors, did I mention the authors?If you wanted to spot an author ( a usually shy and retiring breed) they were out in full  ( identify  them by the lack of tan and a slightly bemused look!)

Here are the authors you can hear read for you  on the Narratives site   in the next coming weeks, and also interviews will come via  the Posts .We will  spend time making them into fascinating Podcasts for radio broadcast  later on the year. Also, we are on Spotify so listen there if you have an app.

Ellen Broad – Made by Humans

Eskil Engdal and Kjetil Saeter- Catching Thunder

Melissa Lucashenko – Too Much Lip

Gregory Peel Smith – Out of the Forest

Ali Alizadeh – The Last Days of Jeanne D’Arc

Chris Hammer – Scrublands

Sarah Krasnostein – The Trauma Cleaner

Carey  Gillam – Whitewash

Hyeonseo Lee- The Girl with Seven Names

Robert Drewe- The True colour of the Sea

Kylie Chan- Scales of Empire

Christine Wells -The Juliet Code

Adam Shoemaker – Black Words, White Page

Warren Mundine- In Black and White

Lian Tanner- Accidental Heroes

Miriam Lancewood- Woman in the Wilderness

Thank you to the Byron Writers Festival  for allowing us to record onsite  and Clare McGregor for author liaison.

 

 

 

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ELLEN BROAD- Made By Humans

Ellen Broad thinks deeply  about  Artificial Intelligence  and  the sorts of issues that usually only earn a few paragraphs in the daily media when moral panic sets in about the rate of change that technology is wreaking on our futures. This is an in depth examination on all levels that helps us to understand the problems experienced by those at the cutting edge of new technology, the legislators grappling to understand complex issues, and our own emotional reaction to the idea of machines to take over so many tasks of our daily lives from medical to recreational.

Ellen Broad reads from ‘Made by Humans’

 

                                                                     Author Ellen Broad

Ellen Broad interview

Recorded at the Byron writers Festival 2018

New readings uploaded!

BEN HOBSON – To Become a whale

Ben Hobson still finds the success of his first novel a ‘bit surreal’. By day an English teacher on Bribie Island, he is challenged by the idea of how to  get young boys interested in reading. He may just have solved the problem with this deep and sensitive book about a young boy’s path to manhood.

Ben Hobson – Interview

 

Ben Hobson reads from ‘To Become a Whale’

 

Recorded on Arts Canvass Bay FM  99.9 2018