Ivan enters The Drover’s Rest, searching for Toxteth McGrath. He finds him in the ‘VIP’ lounge – playing the pokies! Another sleazy hotel, another dark mystery in a small town – how can you go wrong? The Seven are the original families that settled this town and still try to control everything that happens in it. Chris Hammer is one of Australia’s major crime writers.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
This read from Ghost Cities should not be considered typical of the whole novel which is a vast, sprawling array of characters and situations. Even the author himself has said he is not sure where it came from or exactly what it all means! It’s an entertaining launch into another world, based partly on the uninhabited mega cities of China and spans across empires of the ages.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and 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
Yumna reads three short vignettes that pack a huge emotional punch. In ‘Politica’ she highlights inequities in society and deplores the anonymity of victims of war.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
You might love milk, or hate it – but Matthew Evans is here to help us understand what an amazing substance it is- from breast milk to cows milk and many others, it is nature’s superfood.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
Decades of interviewing musicians, hanging back stage, being on the bus, sometimes the plane- Stuart Coupe has seen if not all, then a great deal of how the music industry works. Here he reflects on what led him down this path and what is has given him – and of course lots of anecdotes!
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
How often do we think deeply about the importance of soil? We just take it for granted – but it is the underpinning to everything we experience on this Earth. Alisa Bryce has made an in depth study of how dependent we are on this most commonplace of elements.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
Misha Zelinsky spent two years in Ukraine at the out break of the war as war correspondent for the Financial Times. He chose a fiction novel form to best relate what he experienced there. This extract depicts a dramatic climax in the book.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
A.I has integrated into every part of our lives – almost before we were aware of it. What does the future hold for this technology? How can it help us, or hinder us? Toby Walsh is a world expert on A.I – this book is about keeping it real.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
Benjamin Stevenson writes very funny but totally serious take offs of the crime fiction genre. In this read, a crime writer is stuck on a train with five other crime writers, and one of them is murdered!
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024