Sarah L'Estrange is a producer and broadcaster at ABC Radio National and has been steeped in books and writing for almost 20 years. As producer of The Book Show she has interviewed many Australian and international authors including Helen Garner, Christos Tsiolkas, Min Jin Lee and Salman Rushdie. She has also produced and presented special series for Radio National including Fakes and Frauds about Australian literary scandals and Banned Books which looks at the forces driving book bans worldwide. She also produced The Books that Changed Us which takes a fresh look at five influential books of the 20th century.
Mark Smith, Christine Keighery and Tanya Scott explain their love of writing crime fiction, and how living on the Surf Coast stimulates their imaginations. Demystifying the conventions of crime fiction, each author will talk about the processes behind their writing and the ways they grab readers’ attention, creating gripping novels that stand above the pack. With Sarah L’Estrange.
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9.30am
Kate Halfpenny and Jayne Tuttle have become prominent residents of the Bellarine after moving here from big cities. Their new memoirs explore ambition, regret, motherhood, overwhelm, addiction, and all the messiness of life. The two will dive deep into their moments of triumph, regret and bemusement with Sarah L’Estrange.
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