A little more from HarperCollins Books Australia about our Connie Mulligan....

"The gorgeously funny, entertaining and uplifting new novel from Rachael Treasure, author of the iconic, bestselling and much-loved novels of Australian rural life, including Jillaroo and The Farmer's Wife.

From time to time I get asked to help campaigns to stop the culling of brumbies. I've found education and on the ground action, ahead of overtly emotional activism is the best place for our focus. We need to find solutions out side of mainstream thinking and stop beating the same emotional, reactionary drum.

Novelist Rachael Treasure has dedicated her life to sharing stories about rural Australia and teaching others about regenerative farming practices.

Did you see the Barbie Movie? Whilst some people loved it... I'm still having horror flashbacks about it for reasons about gender and female physiology too complex to take time on here when I have a novel to edit ... but basically...

We are one. One with nature. One with others. And - one with our own hearts - when we are still and silent enough to listen. Sending love. No matter which way you voted - our future depends on your own peaceful and vibrant imaginings. And deep respect for others and this Earth and the air we breathe and water we drink.

Being in Geraldton for the Geraldton Regional Library’s Big Sky Writers festival is bringing back memories of Drift and her father Split Wood in my novel White Horses.

Grab your boots and your cowboy hat, and strap in for an unforgettable ABC Backroads episode. The ep follows Hoedowns For Country Towns founders Kate and Claire on the Tassie leg of their charity bootscooting trip… and features the beautiful Ripple Farm shearing shed!

There is a catch cry of many farmers who say, ‘there’s no future in farming!’
What a load of ‘man-made fertiliser’ - (Rach’s new term for ‘Bull shit’ as bull shit is actually great stuff for the soil!)
Of course there is a future in food production! We all eat! Der!