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Published...Or Not
Hosted by Jan Goldsmith, David McLean and Lisa Moule · EN
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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Christine Balint and Laura McCluskey
1w agoTap to summarizeWomen proving rape is questionable in court today but what of a 13year old in Vicenza Italy back in 1757. Christine Balint hasanother wonderful historical fiction written from a well researched fact in a ‘A Single Witness’. Once again we journey to the highlands of Scotland where an unidentified murder victim and a ten-year old missing persons case converge against a backdrop of ancient myth and folklore in Laura McCluskey's, ‘The Cursed Road’.
Transcribe →Karen Comer and Gabbie Stroud
2w agoTap to summarizeJung, fairy tales and the future all converge in Karen Comer's latest novel, 'Once Upon Tomorrow'.'The Angry Wives Club' is a domestic noir novel with a chick-lit twist by Gabbie Stroud.
Transcribe →Sarah Bailey and Alita Brydon
3w agoTap to summarizeA serial killer enamoured with the internet is a dangerous thing - a scenarion explored in Sarah Bailey's novel, 'Click'.'How to Date Like a Dangerous Woman' is a modern guide to dating safely by Alita Brydon.
Transcribe →Kerry Jewell and Julianne Negri
4w agoTap to summarizeKerry Jewell's, 'A Little Unwell', is a book about life, death and surviving the night shift as a medical practitioner. 'The Belly of the Wolf' is Julianne Negri's verse narrative addressing an adolescent struggling with her best friend's suicide. Always remember, help is only a phone call away through such groups as Headspace (1800 650 890) or Lifeline (131114) should you wish to seek advice.
Transcribe →Kate Solly and Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion
Apr 30Tap to summarizeThe success of the miniature railway is being sabotaged. Observant mother Fleck Parker is asked to find out who could possibly be doing this in Kate Solly’s warm hearted ‘The Paradise Heights Miniature Railway Bust-Up’. 'The General Hospital' continues to detail the mental health challenges faced by psychiatric registrars, interns and specialists in the fraught world of public care. It is the third in a detailed series centred around the professional and personal development of Doctor Hannah Wright by Anne Buist an Graeme Simsion.
Transcribe →Irma Gold and Sarah Walker
Apr 23Tap to summarizeIrma Gold has written a moving tale 'Shift' set in Kiliptown, South Africa.Sarah Walker’s book is ‘The Water Takes’. The title is unfinished just as the ending is open but the novel has characters so honestly drawn in their reaction to a catastrophe that they will live on beyond the page.
Transcribe →Leearna Shaw and Michael Winkler
Apr 16Tap to summarizeA farmer and a movie star, both trying hard to parent their problem kids and both having their much loved spouses die. What future could there be for them in such different life styles. ‘A Farm in the Golden Clouds’, a second time around love story by Leearna Shaw.'Griefdogg' is a sprawling, enigmatic, idiosyncratic delta of a novel by Michael Winkler that poses curious existential questions about memory, responsibility and accountability as the main protagonist would prefer to lead his life as a dog.
Transcribe →Victoria Brownlee
Apr 9Tap to summarizeIn ‘The Writer’s Retreat’, it’s not just fiction that is being written and the closer it becomes to real life is when the suspense just doesn’t happen on the page, cleverly crafted by Victoria Brownlee.
Transcribe →Gordon Thompson and Ian Kemmish
Apr 1Tap to summarizeGordon Thompson catapults a young William Shakespeare and many of his characters into the present day in his novel, Kill Will.The trauma of war links a small community on an island off Scotland, massacres in Bosnia and an Australian war crimes investigator in Ian Kemish's thriller, Two Islands.
Transcribe →Abbey Lay and Chris Hammer
Mar 26Tap to summarizeGrace wants the cultural emersion of Italy but has to decide if language barriers limit or enhance desire. ‘Slip’ by Abbey Lay could mean a slide for Grace back into, or out of, her comfortable relationship. An assassination attempt on the journalist, Martin Scarsden, in Chris Hammer's latest novel, ‘Legacy’, leads to the discovery of an age old feud in the outback where the journalist is seeking to hide.
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