Here are the latest uploads of authors reading for 5 minutes from their own works. Click on the   Book Covers to take you to the reading!

Angela Flournoy – The Turner House – Fiction

A ‘Haint’ is a southern term for a ghost or spirit – and in  the house  the Turner family inhabit in Detroit  in Angela Flournoy’s novel ,it is the children who claim to have witnessed this  aggressive materialization.

 

Ashley Hay – The Railway Man’s Wife – Fiction

The Railway man’s wife is set in Thirroul, a coastal mining  town in southern nsw at the end of the second world war. The heroine Ani, struggles to keep her family together after her husband dies in a mining accident.

Louise Doughty – Black Water – Thriller

Indonesia in 1965 was a a terrifying time for anyone deemed  a ‘communist’ . Here  the main character of the story, John Harper is being told  how many thousands of innocent villagers  met grisly ends , often by the words  of their own terrified neighbours.

 

 

Debra Adelaide – The Women’s Pages  – Fiction

Debra Adelaide’s heroine , Dove,  reads Wuthering Heights to her dying mother  in hospital and then becomes obsessed with writing herself.