Monthly Archives: August 2019

New readings uploaded!

TISHANI DOSHI & MEGAN STACK

This week  I bring you two authors who  have written both fiction and non fiction about the role of women in modern society.

TISHANI DOSHI – SMALL DAYS AND NIGHTS

Tishani Doshi’s novel, ‘Small Days and Nights‘  has a female protagonist returning home to find a major secret in her family life- a responsibility  which she is now expected to shoulder.

 

Tishani Doshi reads from ‘Small Days and Nights’

 

Tishani Doshi interview

 

 

MEGAN STACK – ‘WOMEN’S WORK’

 

Megan K. Stack is the author of Every Man in This Village Is a Liar, which was a finalist for America’s 2010 National Book Award and an Australian bestseller. She reported on war for the Los Angeles Times from 22 countries, and was most recently Moscow bureau chief. When she took time out to have children she discovered a whole new area of conflict – what we term :  Women’s Work

Megan Stack reads from ‘Women’s Work’

 

Megan Stack Interview

 

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Recorded at the Byron Writers Festival 2019

 

 

New readings uploaded!

Fiona Patten and BENJAMIN LAW

Two great memoir  reads to do with sex and identity this week- Fiona Patten and Benjamin Law. Fiona’s book is her own story while Benjamin Law tells his story of growing up queer in Queensland  in a collection of other gay memoirs.

 

Fiona Patten – SEX, DRUGS AND THE ELECTORAL ROLL

Your maiden speech in Parliament is a big deal. It is your one chance to ‘nail your colours to the wall’, and indicate where you stand on important issues. Fiona Patten decided to get in first on the matter of her colourful past history and delivered one to remember.

Fiona Patten reads from ‘Sex, Drugs and  he Electoral Roll’

 

 

Fiona Patten interview

 

Recorded at Bellingen Writers Festival 2019

 

Well that’s the hetero side of it- now over to Benjamin Law….

 

Benjamin Law- Growing up Queer in Australia

 

Benjamin Law recounts his rocky adolescence- if  you are gay and Asian in Queensland, where are your role models? How can he get the right hair? Get rid of acne? Tell your parents?

Benjamin Law reads from ‘Growing up Queer in Australia’

 

Benjamin Law Interview

 

Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2019

Lots more authors and interviews to come.

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New readings uploaded!

Matthew Evans – On Eating Meat

Matthew Evans – On Eating Meat

Confused about diet, ethical consumption , sustainable agriculture?

Wonder why everyone is going vegan?  What if you like eating meat but also want to repair the planet?

Listen to Matthew Evans delve into the complexities of consumption, the ethics of agriculture and the need for a rethink about our  relationship to  food animals and vegetable production.

Matthew Evans reads from -‘On Eating Meat’

 

Matthew Evans interview

Recorded at the Byron writers Festival 2019

 

coming next week:

David Leser ‘ Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing’

New readings uploaded!

Melissa Lucashenko- TOO MUCH LIP

CONGRATULATIONS!

Melissa Lucashenko for winning the Miles Franklin Award for 2019 with ‘Too Much Lip’.

BY an amazing coincidence we just happen to have Melissa reading from her novel and an interview in which she modestly declares she didn’t expect ‘Too Much Lip’ to be  noticed in literary awards as it was too full on!

Melissa Lucashenko

Too Much Lip – extract read by Melissa Lucashenko

 

Interview with Melissa Lucashenko by Narratives Library

 

Recorded at the Byron writers Festival 2018

Coming soon:

In the next few weeks I will be uploading reads and posting interviews from the following authors:

Matthew Evans -On Eating Meat

David Leser – Women, Men and the Whole damn Thing

Marele Day – Lambs of God

Ash Grunwald -Surf by Day, Jam by Night

Lisa-Ann Gershwin – Stung

Matt Condon – The Night Dragon

Hung Le – The Crappiest Refugee

Barabra Toner – Four Respectable Ladies

Bruce Pascoe – Young Dark Emu

Tishani doshi – Small Days and Nights

Tracy Stanley – Over Byron Bay

Joanna Nell – The Single Ladies of the Jacaranda Retirement Village

Matt Condon – Knight Dragon

Isobelle Carmody – Alyzon Whitestarr

Antony Funnell – So Far, so Good

Damon Gameau – 2040

Marcus Zusak – Bridge of Clay

Tony Flowers – How to Stop an Alien Invasion

Megan Stack – Women’s Work

Stephen Pyne- Burning Bush

Benjamin Law- Growing up Queer in Australia

Harry Saddler- The  Eastern Curlew  the -Extraordinary Life of the Migrating Bird

Di Morrissey – Arcadia

Recorded at Byron writers Festival 2019

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