What happens when two activists set out to derail a train carrying coal then have second thoughts about the morality of the action?
Iain Finlay reads from his book.
Iain Finlay interview
Iain Finlay is a seasoned war correspondent and journalist who has spent his life reporting on injustices around the world. This book is totally a work of fiction, though the locations mentioned ni it are real and there are even maps in the book!
Richard Tipping is a poet but also an artist who uses the graphic quality of word as well as their underlying message to make people stop and think. Here are four poems read by him: Soft Riots, Mangoes, Deep Water and Beyond 2020.
Richard Tipping – The Interview ( and one more poem!)
This is another crime novel that can be grouped under the sub-heading ‘Tassie noir’.
The rain drenched forests of Tasmania with its hidden gullies and sudden mists is like a separate character and the perfect setting for a mysterious happening in a small town
Poppy Gee reads from her novel ‘Vanishing Falls’
Poppy Gee- interview
Read recorded by author and interview by phone for Arts Canvass Dec.2021
If you loved the T.V series here is a continuation of the family business as Miss Fisher’s intrepid niece Peregrine Fisher opens up the wardrobe of her aunt and suitably attired sets off to solve a crime.!
This book is utterly absorbing, taking you from India in the 8th century to present day, in an interwoven dialogue between the past and the present and the yearnings of the heart.
If you’ve been vaguely paying attention to the popular press this last year you would have seen the ongoing battle in the American courts brought by Britney Spears as she tried to have a ‘conservatorship’ order lifted that had allowed her father to completely control her life. It seemed incredible that these sorts of laws could still be enacted on women in order for men to control them and yet it used to be so much worse.
This is the incredible true story of Elizabeth Packard’s fight for personal freedom in the latter half of the 19 century in America. Incarcerated in an insane asylum for the (unproven) crime of holding her own opinions, she fought for years for her own and other women’s freedom. Despite her life time of effort, some relics of these repressive and misogynist laws still linger in Western law today.
Kate Moore Reads for you
Kate Moore Interview
Reading supplied by author, interview by phone.
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