Olivia has escaped to deepest rural Tasmania after public humiliation but the house she has rented has a history. One day a stranger knocks on the door with a letter, and in unravelling its mystery, her own life also changes.
Recorded at BAD Crime Writers Festival Sydney 2023
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
Kyle Perry knows first hand about how lives can go awry, particularly when substance abuse is involved. His day job is as a Drugs and Alcohol counsellor – but at night he is writing edge of the seat thrillers centered around his favorite part of the world – Tasmania,
This novel is set in one small fishing town, where one family has held the licenses to fish for prized Abalone for generations. Three members of the family go missing, then , years later, a boy of the right age is washed up on the beach with a horrifying message tattooed into his back. He is alive, but he is not telling what happened to him.
This interview aired on Arts Canvass August 2021.
Recorded at Studio 3 Bangalow.
Two novelists who write lighter fiction but with deeper messages this week
What starts out as a seemingly simple story of two women friends, Stella and Jessica, returning to Stella’s family home in Tasmania, becomes a more complex ecological lesson in the importance of forests and fungi!
Just because you are in a retirement home doesn’t mean you’ve lost interest – in anything!
Joanna Nell
Enjoyable , light reading for hot weather to come!
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Recorded at the Byron Writers Festival 2019
Di Morrissey