Indira Naidoo and Bruce Pascoe
Narratives Library National Edition
Indira Naidoo writes of a year of discovering the small pleasures that help us heal from grief in 'The Space Between the Stars' While multi published author Bruce Pascoe writes of a year of delights on the wetlands and beaches of his home in 'Black Duck'.
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Mark Holden and Stuart Coupe
Narratives Library National Edition
Mark Holden tells us what it was like to become a 'rising star' in 'My Idol Years', how he accidentally insulted Elton John and about turning his back on fame to become a barrister. Stuart Coupe has hung out backstage with almost everyone from the 70s, until now. A highly respected rock journalist his book 'Roadies', is a tribute to the boys in the 'other band'.
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Richard Roxburgh and Tony flowers
Narratives Library National Edition
Richard Roxburgh, international actor has also tried his hand at children's litreature as well. Here he reads from 'Artie and the Grime Wave', and does all the funny voices. Tony Flowers and Nick Falk go one better in 'How to stop an alien invasion using Shakespeare'. This podcast good for kids and parents!
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James Bradley and Melissa Lucashenko
Narratives Library National Edition
James Bradley , author of 'Clade' reads from his speculative fiction novel and discusses how he writes about global catastrophes froma human reltionships viewpoint. Melissa Lucashenko is an award winning Australian indigenous author who gives us an insight to the personal struggles of individuals as they attempt to make their way in a white dominated world.
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Jess Kitchings and Jacinta Parsons - women's lives fact and fiction
Narratives Library National Edition
Jess Kitching's book is fiction but based on her own experience and that of other women who have felt the fear of being stalked by a serial killer. Jess tries to get right into the mind of one such character in her book -'Lucky Number 11'; In her book 'A Question of Age' Jacinta Parsons is concerned that society is stacked against women when it comes to ageing - after all, if we are lucky, we get older, so why the pressure to look young? The authors read a short extract from their work and then an entertaineng interview follows.
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Black and Write!
Narratives Library National Edition
Dinuka McKenzie - The Torrent Dinuka McKenzie is an Australian Indigenous novelist who writes Crime novels. "It’s hard enough being a female detective without being pregnant, exhausted and with a competitive and ambitious, new partner in tow .Detective Sergeant Kate Miles is counting down the days until her maternity leave when not one but two new cases, a robbery-assault and a death in floodwaters, are dumped on her desk leading to unsettling discoveries in her Northern Rivers hometown." Lisa Fuller - Ghost Bird Lisa fuller is an Australian Indigenous novelist who has taken a...
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Literary Time Travelling - Suzanne Gervay and Sally Collin-James
Narratives Library National Edition
Two very different authors , but both wonderful storytellers with deep messages. Suzanne Gervay – Heroes of the Secret Underground Suzanne Gervay OAM is also a lifetime Social Justice Literature Award winner. Suzanne’s family were Holocaust survivors who escaped to Australia after the war. In this read we witness the start of the oppression of the Jewish people in one family when three children accidentally travel through time. This is a Young Adult book but suitable for adults also. Sally Collin-James - One Illumined Thread Three women, across two millennia, the thread linking them is...
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From Vikings to death in a Sauna - Lisa Hannet and Dennis Altman
Narratives Library National Edition
As always on the Narratives Library National Edition, our authors will read for a about 5 minutes then discuss their work. Always illuminating! DENNIS ALTMAN – Death in the Sauna A crime story that leads us from a gay sauna, to the intrigues of of an international AIDS conference. This is celebrated gay activist Altman's 17th book and draws on his considerable experience of the gay underworld and the political rivalry. LISA HANNET - Vikings Women: Life and Lore We have all read and watched stories about the Vikings, but mainly about what the men in those societies did....
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The Narratives Library -Fantasy and Crime -Lucy Sussex and Anne Buisst
Narratives Library National Edition
This edition, a crime thriller and a fantasy novel. Just to keep you balanced! ANNE BUISST- Locked Ward A psychiatrist with a bipolar disorder suspects the police have arrested the wrong person in a murder case. An insightful story about how women are often more vulnerable than men when it comes to mental health issues, written by an author who has had over 25 years of clinical and research experience in perinatal psychiatry. LUCY SUSSEX – Tour Guide in Utopia So when is the 'perfect age' in history? Some of us look backward , but previous generations looked forward to an imagined...
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Craig Silvey and Nat Amore
Narratives Library National Edition
It was Youth Book week so I have featured these two outstanding Young Adult Authors. As always on Narratives they read fromtheir own work and then discuss the book, their lives and being a writer. NAT AMOORE - WE RUN TOMORROW Nat Amoore hosts a podcast on kidslit, rides a skateboard and had very cool sneakers which matched the illustrations in her book ‘ We run tomorrow’ – She had the longest line at the book signing tent. CRAIG SILVEY - RUNT Craig Silvey is a multi award winner for his past books Jasper Johns (2010) , and Honeybee. (2019) ‘Runt’, a beautiful story of a girl...
info_outlineLuc SAnte is an author and critic. He is frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books.
‘The Other Paris’ is actually a walk through the history of Paris from 200 hundred years ago to the 20 century
The Paris we know today was, in Napoleon’s time, a city surrounded by a slowly destroyed rural life, where the fringes of the cities inhabitants struggled to eke out a living beyond ‘The Wall’. I found it interesting to hear an account of the frenetic recycling that this produced, as every scrap of material and detritus was used to make a new product. Luc and I spoke about ‘The Other Paris first and then he read a whole chapter from it. I found the visions he evoked were mesmerising and so have allowed this to be one long read from a single author .
Original music score by Ken Naughton.
Songs ' Paris se regarde' and 'Paris' by Bebe et Lulu