This is the third and probably final instalment in Carl Cleves’ amazing memories of his life as a global musician and ethnomusicologist. The first book was ‘Tarab: Travels with my Guitar’, the second ‘Dancing with theBones’. As always it is a riveting account of encounters both musical and non musical, as he and his music and life partner Parissa Bouas trek to mysterious places around the globe to be thrilled by previously unrecorded music and perform themselves in a variety of unusual places. There is a Q code in the book which when scanned will take you to a Spotify play list of 6 hours of some of the music that has influenced him through his life.
Jennifer Breukelaar is an award winning Australian fantasy and speculative fiction author.
Like all good S.F authors she riffs on current social tropes and expands them into to a ‘what if’ and this novel, about two distinct classes separated by a physical bridge into the haves and have nots is a gripping example.
Something that happened a long tome ago comes to light. A moral dilemma about the indigenous past and white present. The author knows the country he writes about intimately and also has listened to the local Barkarjee stories of this region of western Victoria.
Malcolm Mc Farlane – The Read
Malcolm Mc Farlane – The Interview
Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2022
Two brothers use their skills as miners to build tunnels for the troops. during World War One. This novel paints a vivid picture of the all too human cost of this war to rural Australian communities.
Bruce Meder – The Read
Bruce Meder- The Interview
Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2022
Craig Silvey has written a book for all ages but with especial appeal to those children ( and dogs!) who might feel they are not quite the same as others.
Erna Walraven has had many hats, wildlife consultant, author, and now memoirist. This book makes you want o go now before the way of life she observes disappears entirely.
Erna Walraven – The Read
Erna Walraven – The Interview
Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2022
As a nation we have an image of ourselves which p perhaps doesn’t quite match up to the reality. Are we a ‘classless’ society? Do we believe we are truly multicultural? Time for some navel gazing and soul searching and some deep honesty about our past, present and future.
