Paramedics are called to rush to a sports field. But what happened at this suburban soccer game? Karen Viggers has written a novel about an increasing incident problem in children’s sport – parents who can’t keep themselves from defending their own child’s game.
Recorded at the Byron Writers Festival 2024
A beautifully written novel of a young person searching for their identity through love.
Recorded at the Byron Writers Festival 2024
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 !
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
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
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
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.
Recorded for ‘Arts Canvass’ Bay FM
Next week Tristan Bancks with ‘Ginger Meggs’.
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.
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2018