Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

The Adventures of the Maleny Credit Union

ELAINE GREEN has published a most timely book, coming as it does at a critical time in the 27 year history of the Maleny Credit Union. At the end of June Credit Union members voted not to merge with Credit Union Australia, thereby declaring that their unique local ethical experiment would live on. Elaine has meticulously recounted [...]

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Make history … tell your story

AN EXCITING new pilot project is being launched on the Coast and Hinterland this month. It is called The Story Project and is simply about ordinary people telling their stories and saving them as digital recordings. The focus for each story is the audio recording of a conversation between two people who are close – a [...]

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Caleb’s Crossing – a clash of cultures

Geraldine Brooks’ latest novel One of the most astonishing aspects of Geraldine Brooks’ authorship is the depth of her research. It is often so detailed and in depth that her novels like March and People of the Book take on the life of historical fact. However, her latest novel, Caleb’s Crossing has only a skerrick of historical fact as [...]

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Our Earth is full to overflowing…

PAUL GILDING is an independent writer, advisor and advocate for action on climate change and sustainability. Paul believes we are now in a global ecological and economic crisis that will lead to a period of major global economic transformation. As he argues in his book The Great Disruption he sees this crisis driven change as [...]

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Ange’s adventures in Asia

It’s not every day that you find yourself surrounded by gun-wielding soldiers with your undies around your ankles during a drug bust in the hills of northern Thailand … but that’s exactly what happened when Sunshine Coast songwriter Ange Takats took up a job as a foreign correspondent in Bangkok. The Peregian musician has written a [...]

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Jo Nesbo …a better read than Stieg Larrson?

IF YOU THOUGHT that Stieg Larsson’s Milennium trilogy was a good read then think another Scandinavian thriller writer – Jo Nesbo. For those who enjoy the crime thriller genre then you will find Nesbo’s hero, Inspector Harry Hole a fascinating and complex mix. Harry is a highly sensitive moral man but at the same time [...]

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A Yarn of corruption, lust and greed!

THE LAST Jeep to Baclaran is the first book of a trilogy by local Maleny author John Pullinger. He has produced a gripping yarn of corruption, lust, greed and the brutality of the drug trade which permeated the dying days of the Marcos regime in the Philippines. Based on his own observations as a journalist in [...]

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Sandy is Outspoken

Outspoken’s guest author in April is the travel writer A.J. (Sandy) Mackinnon, author of the bestselling The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow, and The Well at the World’s End. McKinnon’s books rise above the grand morass of travel books that threatens to swamp bookstores because of his wit, his intellect and talent as a writer. [...]

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James Bradley is Outspoken

As part of the Outspoken Festival, novelist and literary editor James Bradley will talk to Steven Lang in the Community Centre on March 16 at 6 pm, about his intriguing anthology, The Penguin Book of the Ocean, and the genesis of his new novel, Black Friday, due for publication in the next year. Bradley has written [...]

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Maleny’s Other History

ELAINE GREEN’S fascinating little book, Maleny: An Alternative History assumes wisely that others have their own versions of the birth and growth of this vibrant town. Actually, this is the first real attempt to plot the social history of a place that has many faces. Elaine says this is “a contemporary history of Maleny – [...]

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