Three engaging, successful authors will be visiting Parkes Library at the end of July and early August to discuss their new books and share their stories with the Parkes community.
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Kim Kelly, author of “Lady Bird & the Fox” will be at the library on Thursday, July 26 at 6pm.
Kim Hodges author of “Girl Over the Edge” will speak at 10am on Saturday, July 28.
On Friday, August 3 at 6pm Jenny Old author of “Back of Beyond” will be at the library.
Please RSVP: 6861 2309 or parkes.library@parkes.nsw.gov.au
Kim Kelly is the author of seven novels that explore Australian history, including the bestselling The Blue Mile, the acclaimed Wild Chicory, and UK Pigeonhole favourite, Paper Daisies. Her stories shine a bright light on some forgotten corners of our past, leading readers with warmth, wit and lyrical charm into difficult terrain, through themes of bigotry, class conflict, disadvantage and violence in our shared history – issues that resonate today.
Kim has released a new rollicking tale, “Lady Bird & the Fox”, and will be in Parkes on Thursday 26 July at 6pm.
“It’s 1868 and the gold rush sprawls across the wild west of New South Wales, bringing with it a new breed of colonial rogue – bushrangers. A world far removed from hardworking farm girl, Annie Bird, and her sleepy village on the outskirts of Sydney.”
You are invited to meet academic and author Kim Hodges talk about her latest book “Girl Over the Edge” on Saturday 28 July at 10am.
Kim has lived with mental illness for the past five years: bipolar 2 disorder, severe depression, generalised anxiety disorder, and post traumatic stress disorder.
“This memoir captures: the denial, stigma and shame I have in my own mind about mental illness; the debilitating physical and mental agony of the illness; engagements with health professionals, and facing my own mortality.”
Surviving fires, floods, Cyclone Ted and the 1970s Beef Crash, “Back of Beyond” is one woman’s remarkable story of love, adventure, disasters and wonderful times in the Gulf Country.
Brought up in the Riverina, a 22-year-old Jenny Bull fell in love with Rick Old and went to live and work with him on his property. With no telephone, Jenny’s only means of communication with her family was hand-written letters, which were kept by her mother and later complied and used as the timeline for “Back of Beyond”.
