Booktown on Sunday

Join award-winning author, Tony Birch, discussing the best of his short fiction from the past two decades. Cherrypicking from across his oeuvre, Pictures of You showcases his skills at finding the extraordinary in ordinary lives, and the often-unexpected connections and kindnesses between strangers.

Join author and comedian from Birdlife Australia, Sean Dooley, as he discusses his memoir The Big Twitch, the results of the latest Aussie Bird Count and the joys of birdwatching.

Our featured speaker is Mark Smith, Author of "Where Truth Ends", in conversation with Jacqui Horwood.
 
Meg Maher thought she was doing the right thing. Now she's on the run.When a peaceful climate protest ends with a violent explosion in the city centre, every member of the protest group becomes a suspect. The incident is declared a terrorist attack.But the authorities aren't the only ones hunting Meg.Scared and alone, Meg seeks refuge with her father, Luke, knowing that every word she says puts him in danger too. But as the terrorism investigation closes in, Meg is forced to question everything: her friends, her cause, even herself. Was her group of activists infiltrated from the start? Or has someone twisted their mission beyond recognition?What happens when the truth is the first thing to burn?
Our featured speaker is Mark Smith, Author of "Where Truth Ends".
 
Meg Maher thought she was doing the right thing. Now she's on the run.When a peaceful climate protest ends with a violent explosion in the city centre, every member of the protest group becomes a suspect. The incident is declared a terrorist attack.But the authorities aren't the only ones hunting Meg.Scared and alone, Meg seeks refuge with her father, Luke, knowing that every word she says puts him in danger too. But as the terrorism investigation closes in, Meg is forced to question everything: her friends, her cause, even herself. Was her group of activists infiltrated from the start? Or has someone twisted their mission beyond recognition?What happens when the truth is the first thing to burn?Where Truth Ends is a taut, character-driven thriller by award-winning author of Three Boys Gone Mark Smith, about what happens when the fight for change becomes a fight for survival.
 

Our featured speaker is Dr Dimity Williams, Author of "Nature, Our Medicine"
 
Dr Dimity Williams is a writer, nature lover, and family doctor. She has completed additional training in obstetrics, paediatrics and mental health, particularly mindfulness meditation.Dimity has worked in environmental advocacy with multiple organisations. She is an alumna of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership, a co-founder of the Kids In Nature Network, and founder of Doctors for the Environment Australia’s Biodiversity Special Interest Group. Passionate about integrating nature into healthcare, she has written and spoken about the ‘nature: health interface’ in various forums and delights in issuing nature prescriptions. Her first book, Nature, Our Medicine: How the natural world sustains us, is described by environmentalist Dr Bob Brown as "a life-changing proposition. It takes us through the rapids of our high-stress world to the calming balm of nature – Just like rafting the Franklin.”
 
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Join Anna Phillips in conversation with Yonke van Geloven about her experience on "Alone Australia".
 
Yonke is a farmer, permaculturalist, and passionate nature connection facilitator and vision quest guide based on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, central Victoria. As a single mother of three, she stewards a 20-acre permaculture property where she weaves together regenerative land practices, storytelling, and community ritual. Her work invites others into deeper relationship with the land and their own wild selves. Yonke recently appeared on Season 3 of Alone Australia.
 
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Join host, Tess Brady, in conversation with Andrea Goldsmith, author of "The Buried Life".
 
The Buried Life brilliantly dissects the conflicts and complexities of contemporary life in a story of love and friendship, faith and fundamentalism, subtly underscored by the power of poetry and music. You can stifle the past but it will breathe again.
 
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Join host, Leslie Falkiner-Rose, in conversation with Natalie Conyer, Jen Hutchison & Richard Freadman, discussing the topic of  "Mature and Marvellous or Older and Awesome".
From our COVID backlog, celebrate the literary forces behind three amazing mature-aged writers.
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Join host, Rebecca Russell, in conversation with Criss Canning, author of "The Paintings of Criss Canning: The House and Gardens at Lambley".
For thirty-five years, Criss has lived in a charming 1860's farmhouse with the adjoining gardens at Lambley, a highly regarded nursery near Ballarat. A fully illustrated monograph on the life and art of one of Australia’s most exceptional still-life artists.
 
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Join Ross McMullin author of Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation. 
Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation won The Age Book of the Year Award. It follows Farewell Dear People, which won The Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History, and Ross’s biography of Pompey Elliott, which won multiple awards.
Life So Full of Promise features vivid stories about a popular doctor, a brilliant cricketer and a potential prime minister, with a fervent love story in the mix.
 
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Join host, Paul Fleckney, in conversation with Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, author of "Surfing Safari".
From our COVID backlog, listen to Australia's favourite science guru discuss his new book which has a haul of extraordinary stories from our incredible Universe.
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