We are now all aware our planet is heating up . While we take steps to reduce the amount of carbon we are pouring into the atmosphere we will have to learn to cope with more hot days and changing seasons. What can we do ?
Recorded at the Byron 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
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
Can you kill the same person 22 times? Well you can if you can travel between parallell universes. Seeking the perfect version of a woman he believes he loves, a murderer believes he must eliminate ‘imperfect’ versions of Madison May. Who will stop him? In this read, Madison is a real estate agent who unwittingly has made an appointment with a ‘client’.
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
So, have you even given thought to the fact that we have called our AI assistants ‘Alexa’ or ‘Siri’. When did servants go back to being soft voiced and female? Tracey Spicer tells us how AI is going to set back the role of women in the future unless we start to raise the consciousness of the designers of the internet!
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
Amie Kaufman’s heroine is a sailor, a shipowner and a magician. This is the introduction to an epic saga that has been translated into 30 languages and won multiple awards
Recorded at Conflux 2023
Matthew R. Davis is an author and heavy metal musician who has published over 70 short stories and poems. This novel follows a young man spiraling disillusionment with life in a small town, and the the danger he places himself and others in as he attempts to change his life.
Recorded at Conflux 2023
It’s one thing to work as a private detective wearing a disguise- but what if you can completely change your form and face at will? Phillip Berrie’s protagonist thinks he is unique , a ‘mutant’, but in investigating another case suddenly finds out a confronting truth about his possible origins and the source of his ‘superpower’.
Recorded at Conflux 2023
Danielle Clode has been hanging about with koalas for some years and what she has discovered about them greatly enlarges our knowledge of how best to help keep our koala populations flourishing. This book is scientific and poetic.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2023