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Satyajit Das
Satyajit Das is a former banker, recognized as one of the world’s leading financial thinkers.
He is the author of numerous books, including Traders, Guns & Money, Extreme Money, Banquet of Consequences and Fortune’s Fool.
His latest work is Wild Quests: Journeys into Ecotourism and the Future for Animals.
Together with his partner Jade Novakovic, he has seen many of the planet’s emblematic mammals, nearly 5,000 species of birds and more.
Das is a regular festival guest and media commentator, and he appeared in the Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job.
Sulari Gentill
Sulari Gentill - Author of the award-winning and best-selling Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, the Greek mythology adventure series The Hero Trilogy, and winner of the Best Crime award at the 2018 Ned Kelly Awards, Crossing the Lines.
Award-winning author Sulari Gentill set out to study astrophysics, graduated in law, and then abandoned her legal career to write books instead of contracts.
Born in Sri Lanka, Sulari learned to speak English in Zambia, grew up in Brisbane and now lives in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of NSW where, with her historian husband, she grows French black truffles, cares for a variety of animals and raises two wild colonial boys. Sulari also paints, but only well enough to know she should write, preferably in her pyjamas.
Naomi Crisante
Naomi’s life has always revolved around food – selecting it, cooking it and celebrating with it. As an award-winning food educator, television presenter, stylist and food writer with more than 40 years’ experience in Australia’s food industry she has the wonderful job of creating something every day.
Whether it is a new recipe, a beautiful image or some inspiring words on a page…it is always centred around food… a thing that sustains, nurtures and excites.
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Tasteful won 'Best in the World' for Food Styling in 2023, at the only international competition for food culture content, the Gourmand World Cookbook Award.
Professor Ian Lowe
Ian Lowe has long been recognised as a leading climate change scientist.
He’s President of the Australian Conservation Foundation, emeritus professor of science, technology and society at Griffith University, an adjunct professor at Flinders and Sunshine Coast Universities, and the author or co-author of 20 books, including Quarterly Essay 27: Reaction Time - Climate Change and the Nuclear Option, A Big Fix: Radical Solutions for Australia’s Environmental Crisis and Long Half-life - The Nuclear Industry in Australia.
Liz Foster
Liz was born and raised in England before arriving in Australia in 1991 on what turned out to be the longest gap year ever. After years doing all sorts of corporate writing she started making things up during a long convalescence. Somehow the thought of going back to editing the fifty page ATO Report into dot points had lost its allure.
Liz is passionate about smart and heartfelt book club fiction – creating character driven, page-turning, uplifting stories in quirky Australian settings, with big themes that resonate.
The Good Woman's Guide to Making Better Choices is a warm, funny and outrageously unfair novel about deception, financial fraud and goat's cheese, and the possibility of starting your life all over again when everything goes south of the border.
Jade Miles
With the bush in her bones and business in her head, Jade Miles is a poly-jobist right down to her toes (which are probably barefoot and muddy). She’s been a local food advocate and educator right across the country for the last 15 years and founded the Beechworth food coop and North East local food strategy. In 2020 she launched her podcast Futuresteading which now features 160 episodes spanning 11 seasons. Her first book, by the same name; Futuresteading is about living like tomorrow matters. Her second book "Huddle" - creating a tomorrow of togetherness, is due to be released in April 2025 and takes the practical seasonal futuresteading skills and brings them together with the communities we are each building for a stronger future and a more resilient culture. To be sure she is putting her efforts where her mouth is, Jade is also a regenerative heritage fruit farmer.
Fiona Lowe
Fiona has been a midwife, a sexual health counsellor and a family support worker; an ideal career for an author who writes novels about family and relationships. As an adult, Fiona read her way around the world always trying to read a book that related to where she was at the time; the Brontes in Yorkshire, Jane Austen in Bath, The Godfather in Italy, Michener in Hawaii...and so the list goes on.
Although she often re-wrote the endings of books in her head, it was the birth of her first child that prompted her to write her first novel.
A recipient of the prestigious USA RITA® award and the Australian RuBY award, Fiona's books are set in small country towns and feature real people facing tough choices and explore how family ties impact on their decisions.
Lee Christine
Lee is the author of four crime novels with romantic elements published with Allen and Unwin.
Lee’s best-selling Snowy Mountains series Charlotte Pass, Crackenback and Dead Horse Gap were published in 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively.
Charlotte Pass won the Australian Romance Readers Association award for Favourite Romantic Suspense in 2020.
Lee’s latest crime novel Glenrock, published in 2024, is set in Lee’s hometown of Newcastle.
Prior to her shift into crime writing, Lee wrote six romantic suspense novels published with Harlequin Australia’s Escape Publishing.
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