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Australian and international authors talk about their books and how they got published or how they self-published. Listeners, writers and readers will also hear about what"s going on in our local writing community.

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Emily Brugman and Gary Disher

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2022/02/10

Emily Brugman writes of the Finnish migrants building homes and families in Australia, connected by hard work, crayfish, the beauty and the terror of the sea and nature in ‘The Islands’.Garry Disher’s cold case mystery in, ‘The Way It Is Now’, counterpoints the past and the present when a now mature but suspended policeman finds more similarities with his constable father than he realized.

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Karen Turner and Michael McGirr

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2022/02/03

During a bombing raid over Yorkshire in WW2, a German pilot is shot down and protected by a farming family for what reason and what risk? Karen Turner has written a big book of sacrifice and love and what the past can teach us in ‘Stormbird’. Garry Disher’s cold case mystery in, ‘The Way It Is Now’, counterpoints the past and the present when a now mature but suspended policeman finds more similarities with his constable father than he realized.

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Joy Dettman and Michael McGirr

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2022/01/27

In Joy Dettman’s ‘The Hope Flower’ there is a volatile mother, her children raise themselves away from the gaze of the authorities, but when she emerges after body shaping surgery, will it be for hope or hell? Michael McGirr provides us with a potted history of philosophy connecting the ideas and themes in a very personal way to his own real life experiences and challenges in, ‘Ideas to Save Your Life – philosophy for wisdom, solace and pleasure’.

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Patsy Poppenbeek and Maxine Beneba Clarke

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2021/12/16

Patsy Popenbeek is one of 40 contributors to ‘South of the Sun: Australian fairy tales for the 21st century’ which are strictly for grown ups!Maxine Beneba Clarke’s poetry is both funny and alarming. Her collection, ‘How Decent Folk Behave’ shows the power of poetry in addressing contemporary issues; the treatment of women, the moral corruption of politics, and the challenge to find a social balance.

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Ali Berg with Michelle Kalus and Chris Hammer

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2021/12/09

Second time around, Evie is reliving her 20’s, will she find the love she is looking for and the career she wants? Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus join together to make the romantic comedy ‘Fancy Meeting You Here’ twice as funny. Chris Hammer takes us to an isolated outback opal mining region for his latest murder mystery, ‘Treasure and Dirt’, where the intrigue is as deep and dangerous as a mine shaft.

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Lindy Cameron and Eugene Bacon

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2021/12/02

Not all crime novels have to have serial killers or gore. ‘Who sleuthed it?’ is a light hearted and fun read with animals helping to solve crimes. These short stories are by 19 different writers from many countries and edited by Lindy Cameron.Eugen Bacon’s collection of speculative short story fiction, ‘Danged Black Thing’, transports us into other times and other realities but her delight with cultural customs and language variations is always evident.

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Peter Watt and C.S. Pacat

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2021/11/25

'The Colonial’s Son' is historical fiction from the Palmer River goldfields to the political power play of Europe, Peter Watt writes of the fighting by bushrangers or armies to achieve their ambitions.In ‘Dark Rise’, C. S. Pacat creates a fantasy world where there is an ambiguity between good and evil – the light and the dark. Nothing is what it seems.

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Sally Hepworth and Katherine Kovacic

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2021/11/18

A step-mother, younger than the groom’s daughters, creates uncertainty in the family with secrets and lies being revealed. Sally Hepworth has written another page-turner in ‘The Younger Wife’ which starts with the wedding and a murder.Katherine Kovacic adapts the Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries television series for the page fleshing out the character of Peregrine Fisher as the young 60’s sleuth solves a double murder in ‘Just Murdered’.

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Emily Maguire

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2021/11/11

An oldie but a goodie! A relevant read about everyday violence, the media's obsession with pretty dead girls and the search for answers in a country town community.

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Hannah Kent and Margaret Hickey

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2021/11/04

Hannah Kent ‘s book ‘Devotion’ in part tells how devout Lutherans emigrated to South Australia but more so about two young woman in the group who find friendship and committed love that follows them beyond the grave.The vast desolate openness of central Australia is the perfect setting for murder – no one can hear you scream. Margaret Hickey utilizes this landscape in ‘Cutters End’ as the setting for a series of cold case murders and challenges our notion of justice.

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Emily Bitto and Mirranda Burton

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2021/10/28

A young man runs from Melbourne into the excesses of capitalism in New York and again into the rural heartland of Ohio . Will he find what he is looking for in Emily Bitto’s novel, 'Wild Abandon'. Mirranda Burton has written/illustrated a graphic novel entitled, ‘Underground’ that provides an insight into Australia’s growing resistance to the Vietnam War including a wombat that was drafted and who went underground to avoid being conscripted.

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Tania Farrelly and Antoni Jach

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2021/10/21

The best of creativity and compassion and the worst of unchecked greed and entitlement are in ‘The Eighth Wonder’, a historical fiction set in the Gilded Age of New York by Tania FarrellyAntoni Jach, in his latest work, ‘Travelling Companions’ demonstrates that travelling is more about the journey than the destination as well as the people you meet along the way.

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Ruth McIver and Ann Rennie

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2021/10/14

Erin’s teenage friends were charged with a horrific murder. 16 years later and as a crime writer, she gets to investigate it herself, in ‘I Shot the Devil’ by Ruth McIver.Ann Rennie’s, ‘Blessed’, is a collection of reflections about the simple things in life that are, in their own way, keys to more profound thinking.

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Jacquie Byron and J P Pomare

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2021/10/07

Jacquie Byron has created a feisty 65 year old woman, getting older but perhaps not wiser. Friends had become unwelcome in her seclusion until circumstances, being the new neighbours, breach her fortress and heart in the humorous ‘Happy Hour’.J P Pomare explores the psychological intrigues made possible by the voyeuristic capabilities of the digital age in his new book, ‘The Last Guests’, where your every move can be monitored and where there are no such things as secrets.

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Kate Ryan and Robert Gott

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2021/09/30

Kate Ryan takes the reader back and forth in ‘The Golden Book’ from a childhood friendship and devastating accident to adult acceptance of blame and learning about the nature of fear and love. Robert Gott continues his 1940s Melbourne based detective murder mystery series with ‘The Orchard Murders’ where obsession and religious fanaticism come to the fore.

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Paige Clark and Gabrielle Williams

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2021/09/23

When family stories are not told or things go unsaid between mothers and daughters or a relationship ends, there is a little death. The grief is played out in many ways through the short stories by Paige Clark in ‘She is Haunted’.Gabrielle Williams crosses both time and continents in her riff on a ‘freaky Friday’ type transfer of souls in her adolescent novel, ‘It’s Not You, It’s Me’.

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Miles Allinson and Stephen Orr

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2021/09/16

Three generations are looking for inspiration and guidance to find out how to love and live. From the India ashram in the 70’s to closed societies of the future, the outcomes for these three generations, lead to very different consequences. Miles Allinson looks into the past and future in his novel ‘In Moonland’.Stephen Orr blurs the line between fact and fiction in his account of the great Australian literary hoax, The Ern Malley Affair, in his novel, 'Sincerely, Ethel Malley'. The Malley myth and

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Ilsa Evans and Sara el Sayed

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2021/09/09

Grandmothers may live on the periphery of a family’s life but when Shirley and Beth suspect their grand daughter is being abused they abduct her with much interest from police, media and of course their family in The Unusual Abduction of Avery Conifer by Ilsa Evans. Sara El Sayed’s memoir, ‘Muddy People’, is more than just an account of a young Egyptian Muslim girl negotiating cultures. The pressures within her family expose how traditional practices are not necessarily reconcilable with a new

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Rachel Givney and Robert Hillman

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2021/09/02

Poland in 1939, with the background of anti-semitism and the imminent Nazi invasion, Maria is absorbed in finding the whereabouts of her mother in ‘Secrets my father kept’ by Rachel Givney.Against the tide of communism and nuclear devastation that followed World War Two, individuals find a simple, common good that gives them comfort. The Quaker, Wes, finds happiness with the socialist, Beth, and Wes’ sister, Patty, finds purpose in nursing the victims of Hiroshima. ‘The Bride of Almond Tree’ is

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Sophie Overett and Mark Brandi

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2021/08/26

In the middle of a heatwave in Brisbane, a son disappears. This causes a family to reconnect, share their secrets, surprisingly make new friendships and investigate their skills, be it art or disappearing, in ‘The Rabbits’ by Sophie Overett. Told in the voice of an eleven year old boy, Mark Brandi’s, ‘The Others’, provides an insight into a child’s coming of age against a backdrop of uncertainty where an irascible father controls the boy’s destiny.

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