Julie Bennett has first hand experience of the opera world . Her father was an opera singer, and as a child she also got to play in crowd scenes on the stage. For those at the very top it is a glamourous life, but the understudies are always hopeful in the wings. Although a work of total fiction, the descriptions of the impact of the Sydney Opera House are based on fact and well researched.
Broadcast on Arts Canvass Bay FM 99.9 March 3
Sally Warriner was chief cook, bottlewasher, nurse, mother, jillaroo, community leader, office administrator – the list goes on and on!
In short anything the general Manager (her husband) didn’t do – she did!
In addition to entertaining a host of important guests, she was organizing outings for politicians and hosting special dinners – everything that came along with the role of being the ‘wife of the General Manager’ on one of the biggest cattle stations in Australia. One day she just got tired of being taken for granted.
Recorded live at Studio 3 Bangalow April 2022
If you love the Gruen Report you’ll love this wonderful collection of short stories, pithy observations and poignant stories all centered around life in fictional advertising agencies. From the horror of office cubicles to the power of sheer imagination, Ennis covers it all.
Broadcast on Arts Canvass Bay FM 99.9 March 3
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 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!
Recorded at Studio 3, Bangalow 2021.
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.
Recorded at Kyogle Writers Festival 2020
This is another instalment in the Monty- Dog Detective series
. Wonderful for all ages, crime novel lovers and dog lovers!
Monty is actually based on Louise’s own dog, Pickles, who she thinks is pretty smart!
Recorded during the BAD Crime Festival Sydney 2021
When a beloved environmental campaigner is found dead at the foot of a cliff in a local quarry, her friends suspect foul play.
But why do the police seem happy to write it off as suicide?
Recorded at BAD crime writers festival Sydney 2021
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
Read recorded by author and interview by phone for Arts Canvass Dec.2021
Here is L.A Larkin with another deeply researched novel about what goes on in the criminal mind – in this case a psychopathic arsonist.
L.A Larkin was attending the BAD crime writers Festival in Sydney .
More authors to come!
Caught up with Mark Brandi at the BAD crime writers festival in Sydney.
Here is a read from his latest novel ‘The Others’. Although it mentions a ‘plague’ he actually wrote it two years before Covid.
In the slightly echoing chambers of the State Library of NSW, Mark talks about his latest work.
Recorded at the BAD festival Sydney Dec. 2021