So who hasn’t watched reality TV and wondered is this real or set up? How far will some contestants go to win the prize- in this case, win back a lost love?
This is a riveting, fictional account but it gives you the feeling it could happen if someone, somewhere decides it might get them ratings!
Recorded at Studio 3 Bangalow NSW 2023
This is the third and probably final instalment in Carl Cleves’ amazing memories of his life as a global musician and ethnomusicologist. The first book was ‘Tarab: Travels with my Guitar’, the second ‘Dancing with the Bones’. As always it is a riveting account of encounters both musical and non musical, as he and his music and life partner Parissa Bouas trek to mysterious places around the globe to be thrilled by previously unrecorded music and perform themselves in a variety of unusual places. There is a Q code in the book which when scanned will take you to a Spotify play list of 6 hours of some of the music that has influenced him through his life.
Recorded at Studio 3 ,2023
Michael Burge reads the prologue from his novel which opens with a description that is a combination of gruesome and poignant.
Recorded at Kyogle Writers Festival 2022
Jennifer Breukelaar is an award winning Australian fantasy and speculative fiction author.
Like all good S.F authors she riffs on current social tropes and expands them into to a ‘what if’ and this novel, about two distinct classes separated by a physical bridge into the haves and have nots is a gripping example.
Recorded at CONFLUX 2022
Something that happened a long tome ago comes to light. A moral dilemma about the indigenous past and white present. The author knows the country he writes about intimately and also has listened to the local Barkarjee stories of this region of western Victoria.
Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2022
Two brothers use their skills as miners to build tunnels for the troops. during World War One. This novel paints a vivid picture of the all too human cost of this war to rural Australian communities.
Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2022
Counselling could take a new form in the future, but new technology brings new risks.
Recorded at CONFLUX Canberra 2022
Suzanne Gervay calls this story a ‘timeslip’ – three teenagers discover a gold locket in their grandparent’s house and it sends them back in time to Budapest in 1944. Here they discover secrets their grandparents had never told them. Gervay writes from personal experience of Holocaust secrets kept in her own family.
Here is Suzanne Gervay’s “The Edge of Limits” – about a young man who has to face more than his own fears of a hostile landscape- he has to face himself.
Recorded at Storyfest 2023
CHILDREN’S BOOKOF THE YEAR 2023
BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
Craig Silvey has written a book for all ages but with especial appeal to those children ( and dogs!) who might feel they are not quite the same as others.
Recorded at Storyfest 2023
Sometimes our biggest foes are own bodies – Tim Baker learnt to live with illness and regained his health and confidence using cannabis oil.
His first experiment with hash cookies got a bit out of control!
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2022