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Welcome back to Your Summer Stories for 2024. Newcastle Libraries is happy to bring you another 7 sizzling summer reads. Skye and Pat have been reading through our exciting titles and are here to introduce you to this summer’s must-read list.
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Welcome to the this is the third and final podcast in the YA Your Summer Stories series. Danni Hilliard chats with CBCA notable author Holden Sheppard about finding your identity, music and of course his recent novel, The Brink.
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Welcome to the 7 th podcast in the Your Summer Stories Series. Skye Jones and the charming Fleur McDonald chat about her new breathtaking novel of rural suspense Broad River Station.
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Welcome to the 6 th podcast in the Your Summer Stories Series. Garry Disher’s new novel Days; end, returns to the outback town of Tiverton, the rural beat of local cop Paul Hirschhausen where all is not as bucolic as you would expect. Dan Cox talks to Garry about Hirsch’s latest travails.
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Welcome to the second podcast in the YA Your Summer Stories series. Danni Hilliard chats with multiple award-shortlisted author Nina Kenwood about love, Vampire Diaries and of course her recent novel, Unnecessary Drama.
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Welcome to the 5th podcast in the Your Summer Stories Series. Kirsty Manning is the author of 6 best-selling books. Today she will be talking to Pat Annetts about her latest novel, The Paris Mystery, the first of a new series with reporter turned amateur sleuth Charlie James.
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Welcome to the 4th podcast in the Your Summer Stories Series. Melanie Sargeant introduces us to one of her favourite authors Holly Throsby about her 3 rd novel, the clever and captivating Clarke.
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Welcome to the 3 rd podcast in the Your Summer Stories Series. Karen Eastwood meets Stella Prize winning author Heather Rose to chat about her luminous and compelling memoir Nothing bad ever happens here.
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Welcome to the 2 nd podcast in the Your Summer Stories Series. Jaye Ford chats to Chris Hammer about his stunning new thriller The Tilt .
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Welcome to the this is the first podcast in the YA Your Summer Stories series. Danni Hilliard chats with ABIA Award-shortlisted author Tobias Madden about love, online gaming and of course his recent novel, Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell.
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Welcome to the 1 st podcast in the Your Summer Series. Newcastle Libraries is happy to bring you another 7 sizzling summer reads. Skye, Karen and Pat have been reading through our exciting titles and are here to introduce you to this summer’s number 1 must read list.
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In this standalone podcast, local drag icon Timberlina hosts a panel discussion with local performers. Discover where they pull their inspiration from and what it takes to hit the stage week in and week out. This is the perfect podcast for those with a mild curiosity or looking to start building their own drag queen empire!
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In this podcast, Before Google, Megan Owen from Newcastle Libraries and Effie Karageorgos and Chip Van Dyke, Lecturers in History from the University of Newcastle will discuss what impact the internet and Apps have had on their fields of expertise. Be reminded, or discover, where we found recipes, phone numbers, music and self-diagnosed our illnesses before the magic of Google fell into our palms.
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Thirty years after the 1991 Royal Commission into Indigenous deaths in custody, many of its recommendations have yet to be implemented. Not only have we now reached the sad milestone of 500 Indigenous people dying in custody since its release, not a single person has been held accountable for any of these deaths. On this episode of Broken Chains we talk to Donna Meehan, an author and survivor of the stolen generation, about issues ...
For a first world country, Australia certainly has some extremely low standards that shock other developed nations. One is the fact we still lock up children as young as 10, in direct violation of the 2019 UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. On this episode of Broken Chains, we talk to Keenan Mundine, a former incarcerated child and the co-founder of Deadly Connections, about the ongoing battle to raise the age of incarceratio...
Considering Australia was founded as a penal colony, it's no surprise we have a long and painful history regarding prisons. On this episode of Broken Chains, we talk to Brett Collins, former prisoner and manager of Justice Action, about the history of the prisoner movement in Australia, and current campaigns to improve the rights of incarcerated people.
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Broken Chains Series 2
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Get up close with the reality of Australia’s prison system. Former incarcerated person Damien Linnane interviews other people since released from prison, about life both inside and after release. Podcast host Damien Linnane is the author of the crime novel Scarred, the illustrator of the book This is Ear Hustle, and the editor of Paper Chained, a journal posted free to inmates ...
A missing man, an eyeless croc and an outback town of 11 people who mostly hate each other. Whatever happened in Larrimah, it's strange and precious and surprisingly funny. Journalists Kylie Stevenson and Caroline Graham have spent years trying to pin it down - what happened to Paddy Moriarty and his dog, how they disappeared, how they might take the whole town and something even bigger with them.
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Joanna Nell is a Sydney-based writer, GP and accidental advocate for positive ageing. Her bestselling debut novel The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village was published in 2018 with rights sold internationally. The tea ladies of St Jude's Hospital is her latest book.
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The Riviera House is the latest book from New York Times and USA Today best-selling author, Perth based Natasha Lester author of a host of historical fiction. Set in war time Paris and on the modern day Riviera this is a riveting tale of love and bravery.
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