Robin Walsh is the curator of the Lachlan Macquarie Room in the Macquarie University Library. For the past 20 years he has been actively investigating the life of Elizabeth macquarie to piece together her relationship with Governor Lachlan Macquarie, their life together in colonial Sydney and the history of their Jarvishfield estate on the Isle of Mull in Scotland. Continue reading
Farid Farid is coming to Parramatta City Library for the lunch hour author talk on Wednesday, 2nd Nov, from 1 -2 pm. He’ll talk about Middle East, its culture and politics.
Farid Farid is a final year doctoral candidate and freelance writer based at the Centre for Cultural Research -UniversityofWestern Sydney. His thesis examines the cultural politics of trauma and loss amongst exiled Iraqi artists & writers inSydney. He has been published in various international and national journals including Le Monde Diplomatique, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Age, The Australian Literary Review, New Matilda,Eureka Street, Social Semiotics, borderlands, Real Time Arts & Art Link.
He is a regular cultural commentator on ABC News 24, The Drum, triple J, ABC Radio National and SBS Arabic Radio providing his observations on the political and cultural dynamics of the Arab world and its diaspora as part of his research. Farid is a member of the Arab Film Festival of Australia Committee, was a judge of the 2011 NSW Premiers’ Literary Awards as well as chair of the prestigious NSW Writers’ Fellowship judging panel. Most recently he participated at Sydney Writers’ Festival and is an invited guest at Brisbane Writers’ Festival later this year.
Lyn Hughes, the Sydney based author of Flock is coming to Parramatta City Library for a lunch time author talk on 3rd of August, from 1 -2 pm.
Born in Wales in 1952, Lyn spent eighteen years in South Africa before settling in Australia in 1982. Her three novels are – THE FACTORY (1990) which was shortlisted for the National Book Council’s New Writing Award; ONE WAY MIRRORS (1993) and THE BRIGHT HOUSE (2000). Lyn divides her time between Sydney and the Blue Mountains.
Lyn Hughes’s latest novel is proof that time is indeed an author’s best friend. Flock is a carefully crafted, in-depth hybrid of historical fiction and biography.