This is a beautiful book for any age about the origins of the Oxford English Dictionary. A young girl is raised in the Scriptorium, where all words are collected, defined, and written into the Great Dictionary. Some characters in the book are fictional and some are based on real people who undertook this enormous task. In the process of collection and definition, some words particular to women are lost.
As a young man Lech Blaine became every parent’s nightmare – he was the driver in a car that accidentally killed his friends.
In small community, there is nowhere to escape confronting the reality of this sort of tragedy. Lech Blaine reads from his memoir after the fatal crash scene has happened which claimed the lives of his friends.
Julie Bennett has first hand experience of the opera world . Her father was an opera singer, and as a child she also got to play in crowd scenes on the stage. For those at the very top it is a glamourous life, but the understudies are always hopeful in the wings. Although a work of total fiction, the descriptions of the impact of the Sydney Opera House are based on fact and well researched.
Sally Warriner was chief cook, bottlewasher, nurse, mother, jillaroo, community leader, office administrator – the list goes on and on!
In short anything the general Manager (her husband) didn’t do – she did!
In addition to entertaining a host of important guests, she was organizing outings for politicians and hosting special dinners – everything that came along with the role of being the ‘wife of the General Manager’ on one of the biggest cattle stations in Australia. One day she just got tired of being taken for granted.
Sally Warriner – Interview
Sally Warriner – reads from ‘….the Wife of the General Manager’.
If you love the Gruen Report you’ll love this wonderful collection of short stories, pithy observations and poignant stories all centered around life in fictional advertising agencies. From the horror of office cubicles to the power of sheer imagination, Ennis covers it all.
What happens when two activists set out to derail a train carrying coal then have second thoughts about the morality of the action?
Iain Finlay reads from his book.
Author Iain Finlay
Iain Finlay interview
Iain Finlay is a seasoned war correspondent and journalist who has spent his life reporting on injustices around the world. This book is totally a work of fiction, though the locations mentioned ni it are real and there are even maps in the book!
Richard Tipping is a poet but also an artist who uses the graphic quality of word as well as their underlying message to make people stop and think. Here are four poems read by him: Soft Riots, Mangoes, Deep Water and Beyond 2020.
Richard Tipping – The Interview ( and one more poem!)
Richard Tipping one more interview!
Recorded at Kyogle Writers Festival 2020
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