A beautifully written novel of a young person searching for their identity through love.
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Recorded at the Byron Writers Festival 2024
DYLIN HARDCASTLE – A Language of Limbs
Category Archives: Love and Relationships
AMY LOVATT – Mistakes and Other Lovers
Amy Lovatt – Mistakes and other Lovers
Elle is searching for meaning in her life when her workmate JD invites her to church ‘just to hear the band’. Elle is apprehensive, which soon proves prescient as she finds the brilliant smiles and bonhomie begin to feel false to her. Some language in this read !
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Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
INDIRA NAIDOO – The Space between the Stars
INDIRA NAIDOO – The Space between the Stars
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.
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Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
RHETT DAVIS – Hovering
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?
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Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2023
SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM -This Devastating Fever
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.
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Recorded at Bellingen Writers and Readers Festival 2023
ANGELA MEYER – Moon Sugar
Josh mysteriously disappears while travelling and searching for him reveals more about the relationships between his friends as the mystery surrounding his disappearance deepens.
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Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2023
ELIZA HENRY-JONES – Salt and Skin
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.
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Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023
Alison Gibbs-‘Repentance’
It’s an oft repeated history of rural areas that new comers bring change and also have to earn their acceptance. Often fresh perspectives challenge traditional and old ways and clashes and misunderstandings happen. Conflict is often resolved with communication, and also time itself will alter long held views. This is the underlying trope of ‘Repentance‘, a logging town built on forest wealth that is running out of time and favour.
Alison Gibbs- Interview
Alison Gibbs reads from ‘Repentance’.
Recorded for ‘Arts Canvass’ Bay FM
Next week Tristan Bancks with ‘Ginger Meggs’.
MELISSA LUCASHENKO – Too Much Lip
In her interview Melissa revealed that she felt her previous novel ‘Mullumbimby’ was too accessible, and in this new novel she wanted her characters to be perhaps a little less likeable, a little more desperate. They are certainly dealing with desperate situations. For her protagonist, the only way up in life is to fight his way through – literally.
Melissa Lucashenko reads from ‘Too Much Lip’
Melissa Lucashenko – Interview
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2018
JARRAH DUNDLER reads from ‘Hey Brother’
‘Hey Brother‘ is a beautifully written book that charts a difficult year in a young man’s life.
His brother goes to war, his father is estranged from his mother who drowns her anxiety in alcohol, and he finds first love.
It’s a lot to take on, but Jarrah’s protagonist, Trysten, rises to the occasion . Then his brother Shaun returns from the war, and Trysten thinks everything will be okay , but the family’s troubles are just beginning.This novel was written with the assistance of the Byron Writers Centre mentor ship program.
Author Jarrah Dundler
Jarrah Dundler reads from his novel ‘Hey Brother’
Recorded on Arts Canvass at Bay FM 99.9 2018