This is the book to read if you are feeling pessimistic about the future of the planet. There are lots of brilliant people out there inventing new ways for us to do old things. Lots of different strategies for repairing the planet and constructing a cleaner, fairer and brighter future.
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023
The Secret to Happiness it appears is fulfilling relationships with people who love you, and not thinking about yourself all the time! The longest running case study in the world on what it takes to make a happy life.
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023
The incredible true story of two middle aged women who became unknowing drug mules for the biggest hash import into the country.
Sentenced for 14 years ( they served five) Sandi Logan interviewed nearly every one involved with this crime to piece together this story with the exception of one person who was one of the masterminds behind it all.
Recorded at BAD Crime Writers Festival Sydney 2022
Three women, centuries apart, but all connected by a creative artwork. Elisheva is born in the time of Herod and defies convention to become a glassblower, Antonia, a painter, lives in the time of renaissance Florence and Dr. Reed lives in present day Adelaide, where she is restoring an ancient tapestry.
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023
Here is another in my special podcasts of BAD crime authors ( You can find another on the Podcasts page!)
Margaret Hickey with ‘Cutter’s End’, Suzanne Leal with ‘The Deceptions’ ‘ and Rae Cairns with ‘The Good Mother‘. These three authors will be appearing again at BAD with new novels so I have featured them together. The BAD crime writers festival starts next Wednesday at the Mitchell Library in Sydney. Look up their website for all the details https://www.badsydney.com/
Recorded at BAD 2022
Matthew R. Davis is an author and heavy metal musician who has published over 70 short stories and poems. This novel follows a young man spiraling disillusionment with life in a small town, and the the danger he places himself and others in as he attempts to change his life.
Recorded at Conflux 2023
The inhabitants of Earth have divided into human and non human and have been at war for a thousand years with Heaven. The few remaining human tribes are devolving, as they scratch out a living on a destroyed plant. They live a timid existence until Ferren, different from the others, finds a fallen angel . Befriending her, he bravely sets out to discover the truth about his world.
Recorded at Conflux 2023
As the virtual world becomes increasingly sophisticated and seductive, will we finally have to choose between ‘meat life’ and Gaia- where everything is beautiful and no-one ever ages? A beautifully written debut novel that explores what it means to be ‘human’.
Recorded at Conflux 2023
It’s one thing to work as a private detective wearing a disguise- but what if you can completely change your form and face at will? Phillip Berrie’s protagonist thinks he is unique , a ‘mutant’, but in investigating another case suddenly finds out a confronting truth about his possible origins and the source of his ‘superpower’.
Recorded at Conflux 2023
The ‘Ghost Bird’ in this novel is an indigenous story told to children around the fire at night. For two sisters, mirror twins , it becomes real when one of them mysteriously disappears. The remaining sister sets out to find her, but must be brave enough to break taboos surrounding the incident.
Recorded at Conflux 2023