James Mather is a psychiatrist in his sixties. He is invited to take on a new group of patients. All he knows about them is that each one claims to have been abducted by aliens. His wife, Deborah, is sceptical, but he gets going anyway. His patients tell mesmerising stories. There’s Anthony, for instance, whoContinue reading “Q&A with Amanda Lohrey on Capture: Alien abduction, scepticism and psychiatric research”
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Q&A With Dr Bee Lim on Welcome Home
What if the parts of yourself you silenced just to survive… were the ones calling you home? Welcome Home is seen through the eyes of Isabel Meilin, who wanders through a mysterious house built from memory, where she meets Rabbit, Ox, Wolf, and Crane–inner protectors shaped by fear, duty, rage, and distance. Each carries aContinue reading “Q&A With Dr Bee Lim on Welcome Home”
Q&A with Lauren Keegan on The Woman in the Seal Skin
Set in Scotland in 1695, this is the story of Malie, a young woman struggling with grief, oppression, her relationship with nature and her own inherent wildness within during Europe’s ‘little ice age’. Malie grew up hearing tales of selkies: shape-shifting women who shed their seal skins to seduce fishermen on the Orkney shores. That’sContinue reading “Q&A with Lauren Keegan on The Woman in the Seal Skin”
Q&A with Kay Kerr on Might Cry Later
Meet Nora Byrne. Over-thinker, under-achiever, champion vibes-killer. After spectacularly blowing up her life, twenty-one-year-old Nora Byrne retreats to the family home with little to show for herself but a shiny new autism diagnosis. But it’s hard to process this news under the critical eye of her mother, who already treats her like the black sheep,Continue reading “Q&A with Kay Kerr on Might Cry Later”
Q&A with Pip Smith on The Pull of the Moon
Coralie is thirteen years old and lives on Christmas Island, where sea birds circle the sky and the seasons are marked by the migratory patterns of crabs. But life on the island isn’t always paradise. During a fierce tropical storm, a fishing boat carrying eighty-nine asylum seekers crashes into the island’s cliffs. Coralie locks eyesContinue reading “Q&A with Pip Smith on The Pull of the Moon”
Q&A with Mark Mupotsa-Russell on The Wolf Who Cried Boy
Six-year-old Henry believes his life is a fairytale. He’s a Star Prince, his mum is a Star Queen and they’re hiding from Henry’s father, the mysterious ‘Wolf King’. When news arrives that his Grandma is gravely ill, Henry and his mum must take a road trip across the country and back into the Wolf King’sContinue reading “Q&A with Mark Mupotsa-Russell on The Wolf Who Cried Boy”
Q&A with Sinéad Stubbins about her latest novel, Stinkbug
In this wildly original and deeply unhinged story, Sinéad Stubbins turns her keen but empathetic eye on the lies we tell about ourselves in order to belong. Part anxious millennial fever dream, part searing workplace satire, Stinkbug follows Edith and a select group of employees at Winked advertising agency who are sent to an elite three-dayContinue reading “Q&A with Sinéad Stubbins about her latest novel, Stinkbug”
Q&A with Miranda Luby about her new release, The Edge of Everything
Miranda Luby’s new novel The Edge of Everything is a heartfelt portrayal of grief, a tender romance, and a tribute to a very special Australian bird. Miranda is an author, journalist, copywriter and animal lover living on Victoria’s Surf Coast. She has won several awards for her short stories, and her journalism features in publicationsContinue reading “Q&A with Miranda Luby about her new release, The Edge of Everything”
Author interview | Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist talk the Glass House
Join us for a fascinating interview with Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion, authors of the Menzies Mental Health series – i.e. The Glass House (book 1) and The Oasis (book 2). We have a lot to talk about including the complexity of the Australian mental health care system, balancing technical accuracy and storytelling, and tellingContinue reading “Author interview | Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist talk the Glass House”
Tara Calaby on spiritualism, representation, and grief l Author interview
Tara Calaby joins us on today’s episode to discuss her latest novel, The Spirit Circle: a speculative historical fiction on the intersection of spiritualism and grief. The novel features women who are haunted by grief and come together as a church under the charismatic leadership of a medium. Tara discusses writing cult-ish dynamics in theContinue reading “Tara Calaby on spiritualism, representation, and grief l Author interview”