Misha Zelinsky spent two years in Ukraine at the out break of the war as war correspondent for the Financial Times. He chose a fiction novel form to best relate what he experienced there. This extract depicts a dramatic climax in the book.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
A.I has integrated into every part of our lives – almost before we were aware of it. What does the future hold for this technology? How can it help us, or hinder us? Toby Walsh is a world expert on A.I – this book is about keeping it real.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
Benjamin Stevenson writes very funny but totally serious take offs of the crime fiction genre. In this read, a crime writer is stuck on a train with five other crime writers, and one of them is murdered!
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
So, have you even given thought to the fact that we have called our AI assistants ‘Alexa’ or ‘Siri’. When did servants go back to being soft voiced and female? Tracey Spicer tells us how AI is going to set back the role of women in the future unless we start to raise the consciousness of the designers of the internet!
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
Crime podcasters have become investigative journalists these days – and this novel is a fictional account of a podcaster who sets out to open a cold case. Has an innocent man spent seventeen years in prison for a crime he did not commit?
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
A year in the district that Bruce Pascoe has lived in for most of his life- Mallacoota in Victoria. Filled with Lakes, rivers and wetlands that support a huge range of wildlife- including seals, one of which Bruce encounters frequently in this read.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
This is a beautiful memoir of coping with grief in a positive way. Indira’s beloved sister passed away and she set out on a search on how we can all deal with grief as a natural process and how it can lead to deep healing.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
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!
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
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.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
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.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024