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
A little known fact of the First world War was that hundreds of women volunteered in the Medical Corps – nurses, orderlies and even surgeons. Many of them were sent to the ancient city of Salonika which was almost totally destroyed and this book is based on records though fictionalized for narrative.
Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2023
Three siblings navigate a touchy relationship between them , without understanding where and when the distance began. Can they come to terms with past issues and move forward as one family?
Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2023
The Bloomsbury Set have been well documented but Sophie Cunningham found herself fascinated by the over arching influence of Leonard Wolff on literature and social mores. His ‘fever’ was sexual desire, and he felt himself overwhelmed by it.
Recorded at Bellingen Writers and Readers Festival 2023
Josh mysteriously disappears while travelling and searching for him reveals more about the relationships between his friends as the mystery surrounding his disappearance deepens.
Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2023
A photographer concerned with documenting the visible evidence of climate change lands on a small island in Northern Europe with her two teenage children. In the first few moments of her landing she witnesses and records a terrible tragedy. Then the house they are given to live in is full of strange markings from the past, carved into the wood of the beams. A novel of changing social mores tangled with superstitions from the past.
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023
Amie Kaufman’s heroine is a sailor, a shipowner and a magician. This is the introduction to an epic saga that has been translated into 30 languages and won multiple awards
Recorded at Conflux 2023