HANNAH MOLONEY – Good Life Growing

Hannah Moloney – Good Life Growing

Hannah Moloney bounds into the interview all dazzling smiles and pink hair wafting. She is a fabulous advertisement for the benefits of spending your life growing and eating fresh food! And of course she appears every week on Gardening Australia on the ABC, exactly the same. This is a beautiful book full of pictures, advice, recipes and ideas – get growing and change the world!

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Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024

KATE MILDENHALL – The Hummingbird Effect

Kate Mildenhall – The Hummingbird Effect

Although this extract is set in the meat works in Fitzroy in the 1923 this book spans across centuries and different characters. It covers four main characters in very different situations going from 1923 to 2020 to 2031, from an  elderly woman in a care home to an unemployed singer. The link between all the characters is labour. It finishes in 2081 with Maz and Onyx, two sisters in a post dystopian world.

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Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024

CATHERINE McKINNON – To Sing of War

Catherine McKinnon – To Sing of War

A novel set in the Second world War which follows a soldier Virgil and a nurse Lotte , stationed in New Guinea, a Japanese mother trying to keep her family alive in war torn Japan and the inventor of chaos himself Oppenheimer.

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Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024