Former journalist and writer, Michael Brissenden discussed his latest novel, ‘Dust’ with me on the show.
Topics included:
- How Dust came to be - its real-world, real location inspiration.
- Communities turning on one another during a crisis - how the finger-pointing/blame-shifting can happen so quickly and how factions can form so easily.
- The role media and media coverage plays, even in small, local community issues and what lasting, widespread impact it can have.
- Forms of self-radicalisation and how they are shown in the novel.
- And a ton more!
Thanks be to Michael for discussing Dust with me on the show!
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Former journalist and writer, Michael Brissenden discussed his latest novel, ‘Dust’ with me on the show.
Topics included:
- How Dust came to be - its real-world, real location inspiration.
- Communities turning on one another during a crisis - how the finger-pointing/blame-shifting can happen so quickly and how factions can form so easily.
- The role media and media coverage plays, even in small, local community issues and what lasting, widespread impact it can have.
- Forms of self-radicalisation and how they are shown in the novel.
- And a ton more!
Thanks be to Michael for discussing Dust with me on the show!
Writer, editor, actor, Laura McCluskey, joined me to discuss her debut novel, ‘The Wolf Tree’,
Topics included:
- What inspired ‘The Wolf Tree’ and how it went into crafting the fictional island setting of Eilean Eadar.
- Trust in its many forms.
- Tradition - what compels an individual and a people to uphold it.
- Fear - how it features in different ways and dynamics in the novel.
- And a ton more!
Thanks heaps to Laura for chatting with me on the show - get your copy of ‘The Wolf Tree’ now!
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Former journalist and writer, Michael Brissenden discussed his latest novel, ‘Dust’ with me on the show.
Topics included:
- How Dust came to be - its real-world, real location inspiration.
- Communities turning on one another during a crisis - how the finger-pointing/blame-shifting can happen so quickly and how factions can form so easily.
- The role media and media coverage plays, even in small, local community issues and what lasting, widespread impact it can have.
- Forms of self-radicalisation and how they are shown in the novel.
- And a ton more!
Thanks be to Michael for discussing Dust with me on the show!
