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Tyree Barnette is an African american man living in Australia exploring australian indigenous culture. Steve Toltz 's hilarious novel has just been nominated for a Booker Prize.
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Two novels about secrets. A crime/political thriller from Ian Kemish set across the globe and a story of yearning for knowledge of your origins from Judi Morison.
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Lee Kofman - Ruptured Since October 7, 2023 life has changed irrevocably for Jewish women.Lee Kofman asked Jewish women to submit stories illustrating racism and aggression towards them, simply because of their Jewish identity. More than a hundred and fifty submissions were received and thirty six of them are published in this book as a collection of essays on the thoughts and feelings of what it means to be Jewish in Australia post October 7. Lee Kofman - The Writer Laid Bare Lee Kofman’s advice is if you want to write a memoir, perhaps don’t! But she then outlines why sometimes ,...
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Amy Remeikis -'Where it all Went Wrong: The John Howard Years' Was former prime minister John Howard the 'great economic manager' or did he create the terrible scenario we are now facing in Australia : the housing crisis, workplace insecurity and wage freezes, the selling off of our natural resources, the denial of climate change and more?He introduced franking credits, negative gearing and sold out the country to mining billionaires leaving whole generations struggling to put a roof over their heads and educate their children. Amy Remeikis pulls no punches in this examination of his tenure...
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Natalie Kyriacou - 'Nature's Last Dance' Natalie Kyriacou is an award winning environmentalist, charity director and author and founder of Green World. In this inspiring read of a penguin rescue she offers hope that collective action by like minded people can move mountains and if we work as a community we can arrest the degradation of our environment. Bob Brown - 'Defiance' Bob Brown draws on a life time of environmental activism and consciousness raising to show how courage, conviction and persistence, coupled with community action can defeat hostile corporate lobbyists, press...
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Two top S.F authors - Kaarron Warren with 'Not all Stones mean Murder' and J.J Carpenter with ' The Haunting of Kenmore Asylum'. Recorded at CONFLUX S.F convention in Canberra 2025.
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Richard Jones has been a politician, a publisher, an environmental activist and now a ceramicist - at 85 years and he's probably just getting started! His life has been devoted to drawing attention to the plight of Nature, these days he lives surrounded by it. He has published this memoir which is crammed with outrageous activist stunts and exploits to help others understand the importance of speaking up, and speaking out.
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This episode is actually two reads and interviews with highly popular fantasy author Leanbh Pearson. 'Loki: Untangling a Tale' and 'Bluebells in the devil's Garden'.Recorded at CONFLUX S.F convention 2025 in Canberra Australia.
info_outlineDinuka 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 Dreamtime story and woven it into a crime mystery.
"Horror stories and scary beasties are common to all cultures and Lisa Fuller weaves an Indigenous story of the Ghost Bird into a riveting story involving twin sisters, one of whom is 'snatched' - where did she go? The other twin, has to find her."