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
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.!
Reading recorded by author Nov. 2021
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.
Reading supplied by author, interview by phone.
Lisa Nicol’s fun book for ages 6-12 ( or even a bit older) has lots to keep them giggling and also thinking about some bigger issues. I have been featuring Children’s and Young Adult books the last few weeks on my radio show Arts Canvass as I think everyone needs a few good books to keep the family together!
And if you head over to the Young Reader’s page there is a BONUS read from Lisa from her book ‘ Vincent and the Grandest Hotel on Earth‘
This interview was aired September 2 ,2021 0n Byron Bay FM 99.9