Maggie MacKeller already had some experience of farm life before she followed love to the eastern seaboard of Lutruwita ( Tasmania). But the harsh drought conditions of one year really extended her endurance. But still she found things to sustain her.
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023
In her wonderful read from this book Ellen van Neerven lays out the stark divide between white and indigenous Australian culture in revisiting how Ash Barty was treated by the Sports Press for the simple act of including her niece in a press conference.. Fortunately she sees there is a change in the wind in women’s sport, and these days white and black sports people include their families more fully in their triumphs and losses.
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023
This is a window into Sydney’s early 20 century history – and what life was like for the those at the bottom of society, particularly it’s women. Iris is poor and victim of domestic violence who escapes the rural life she was brought up in to fend for herself on the streets of Sydney. The author constructed Iris’ story from police records and local documents, tracing her moves from prostituion to busker to a form of freedom.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2023
With so many issues in the world today it is easy to feel overwhelmed and powerless – but Natalie Isaacs believes you can be a force for radical change but first you have to believe it is possible – in short, you have to have positive optimism!
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2023
Danielle Clode has been hanging about with koalas for some years and what she has discovered about them greatly enlarges our knowledge of how best to help keep our koala populations flourishing. This book is scientific and poetic.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2023
Kim Mahood has spent her life ‘wandering’ as she terms it across into lands many of us never get to visit. There she listens to its First inhabitants and watches the land and it’s changes. The result is a beautiful meditation on the vastness of the Australian landscape and the depth of knowledge amongst First Nations peoples.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2023
This is a short story from the collection ‘Green Monkey Dreams’. Isobelle Carmody has a fine grasp on where the fantastic and the macabre meet with the mystical.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2023
A wonderful follow on from Pip’s international best seller The Dictionary of Lost words, this takes us into the lives of the workers who toiled to hand make every publication – folding, stitching, gluing and embossing, an enormous task.
Recorded at the Bellingen Reader’s and Writers Festival 2023
It’s hard being a Millennial – but Tom Ballard makes it very funny- even when he is being his own worst enemy!
Recorded at the Bellingen Reader’s and Writers Festival 2023
How did the wallaby cross the road ? And why did it need to? If you can answer that question as a wildlife researcher you can begin to understand the complexity of wildlife corridors and how we have disrupted them with our highways, and motorways. We have interrupted their journeys and they pay a heavy price. But researchers have been trying to solve this problem in different ways for some years now and there has been a lot of advances. Read this wonderful book and keep a look out on the roads, for wildlife and the the design of the crossings that have been engineered for them!
Recorded at Studio 3 Bangalow NSW 2023