Edition eleven : Catherine Evans – ‘The Healing Season’ and Kelly Hunter –‘Wish’
Today we hear from two authors who are classed as Romance authors but this genre is now so expanded that under books published by romance imprints along with the usual love stories you will find, crime, fantasy, science fiction, historical and in the case of Catherine Evans and her book ‘ The Healing Season’ – scientist romance! In Kelly Hunters novel ‘Wish’ we have a classic ‘ searching for a new life’ saga – but charmingly and satisfyingly told as a young mother struggles to start again.
Featured music track:‘The day that I lost You’ – Suzannah Espie; “ Back to the Sun” -Ange Takats
Recorded at the A.R.R. A conference , Melbourne 2017.
Edition Ten :Tracey Spicer – ‘The Good Girl Stripped Bare ‘; Mary-Lou Stephens –‘ Sex,Drugs and Meditation’ and Suzanne Leal – ‘The Teacher’s Secret’
Well this week’s edition is certainly topical! Here is Tracey Spicer with her explosive expose of the misogyny in the media industry ( who’d have thought?!) and Mary-Lou Stephens tells all about being bullied at the ABC and Suzanne Leal weighs in with a fictional novel of life in the education department.
Featured music tracks:‘Change’ –Jodi Martin; ‘Some say I got Devil ‘ –Inge Liljestrom
Recorded at Sydney Writers Festival 2017, Byron writers Festival 2015, Sydney Writers Festival 2017
Two great musical memoirs from Tex Perkins in ‘Tex’ and Mark Holden in ‘My Idol Years’. Language warning on the Tex Perkins one as he recounts his early years performing around Sydney.
Edition Nine: Sebastian Smee –‘ The Art of rivalry’ and Ashleigh Wilson –‘Brett Whiteley –Art, Life and the other thing.’
Two fascinating books on artists’s lives. In ‘The Art of Rivalry’,Sebastian Smee shows us how the relationships between artists can influence what we see in our museums, and how art movements have evolved by artists interacting and competing with each other.
Ashleigh Wilson delves ever deeper into Brett Whiteley’s tumultuous life to reveal the man behind the artist in “Brett Whiteley- Art, Life and the other Thing”..
Featured music tracks: “Talk About Love” –My Friend the Chocolate Cake, “All the colours’ by Neil and Tim Finn
Penelope Janu – In at the Deep End, Susan Lattwein – – Lost in Kakadu, Kendall Talbot Arafura- Blood, the wet and tears.
Three romance novelists go into the great wild outback of Australia and the ocean . Hear them read from their work and discuss it afterward. Music track from Kasey chambers ‘Nullabor Song’.
Edition eight: David Leser “To Begin to Know – walking in the shadows of my Father”, Nikki Gemmel ” After”.
David Leser reads from his memoir ‘To Begin to Know- in theshadows of my father’, in which he attempts to understand the forces that shaped his father’s childhood and their subsequent relationship. Nikki Gemmel reads from ‘After‘, an astonishing examination of the aftermath of her mother’s suicide. ( This interview and read deals with the subject of assisted dying .)
Featured Music track : “Undertow” by Cye Wood
Recorded at Sydney Writers Festival 2016 and Byron writers Festival 2017 respectively.
David Leser reads from his memoir ‘To Begin to Know- in the shadows of my father’, in which he attempts to understand the forces that shaped his father’s childhood and their subsequent relationship. Nikki Gemmel reads from ‘After’, an astonishing examination of the aftermath of her mother’s suicide. ( This interview and read deals with the subject of assisted dying .)
Catherine Hein – ‘The Healing Season’ – a romance novel about an agricultural scientist in a country town and and Kelly Hunter ?’Wish’- classic ‘ new beginnings’ romance inthe country.
Muic:
‘The day that I lost You’ ? Suzannah Espie; ” Back to the Sun” -Ange Takats
Edition Seven: Charlie Veron,–‘ A Life Underwater’, Peter Doherty ‘ ‘The Knowledge Wars’ and Tim Flannery –‘Atmosphere of Hope’
Charlie Veron ‘ the father of coral’, recounts “the view from my coffin” as he imagines looking back, Peter Doherty tells you how to sort climate fact from climate fiction, and Tim Flannery says don’t give up on the planet just yet.
Tracey Spicer – ‘The Good Girl Stripped Bare ‘ ,and Mary-Lou Stephens ?’ Sex, drugs and Meditation’ and Suzanne Leal ? ‘The Teacher’s Secret’
Three female authors dealing with issues in the media and education workplace, fiction and non-fiction and even some comedy! Music’Change’ ?Jodi Martin; ‘Some say I got Devil ‘ ?Inge Liljestrom.
