Further reading to take you down the dirt roads…
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When my debut novel Jillaroo was published in 2002 it was about rural youth suicide, the ostracism from farms some women experience based on their gender and about deep spiritual connections to landscapes.
The gorgeous people you meet! This week I was lucky enough to have a Con Versation with Con Koutsikas! He’s just the bees knees at interviewing. Take a look/listen.
Autumn is in the air and whilst all around are bare paddocks grazed to the boards and we've had diddly squat rain, we've managed to capture the moisture from the small water cycle on our little patch of ground.
Blown away by this beautiful comment- someone asked ‘what was a book that changed their life or perspective?’ and this was Phil’s response! I can’t wait for him to read Milking Time too!
Tonight at Shambles Brewery we regenerative farmers are hijacking Valentine's Day! The true meaning of Valentine's Day has been lost in the ethers of time, replaced instead with a cultural 'asleepness' about the realities of eternal love... love that entwines everything ... from cows to the cosmos.
Being 55 now and having had life dish me up some massive (and ongoing) financial, family, farm and health challenges - and seeing the environmental decline of our beloved Tasmania due to chemical and commodity driven agriculture I simply can’t write a romance/party/boy meets girl narrative. I want to give you so so much more!
It’s day one of the Pink Test. It’s stirring mixed emotions. I spent 2022 undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatment after two surgeries for breast cancer. I told virtually no one - I didn’t want the fear that people project into your space when you say you’ve been diagnosed with cancer.
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.