Free live online chat with Ghost Species Author James Bradley

Join author James Bradley next week for a Zoom Webinar to discuss his latest book Ghost Species.

James Bradley is the author of four novels - Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist and Clade, and a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus. His books have won or been shortlisted for a number of major Australian and international literary awards and have been widely translated.

This free live, online author talk is a collaboration between NSW Public Libraries including Central West Libraries.

The conversation will be facilitated by Amy Heap, Outreach and Promotions Co-ordinator at Riverina Regional Library, and viewers are invited send in questions and have them answered.

The webinar is a view-only platform. You won't be seen by the speakers or the other participants, so you can relax in your most comfortable clothes and enjoy your favourite beverage while you watch.

Set against the backdrop of hastening climate catastrophe, James’ new book Ghost Species is an exquisitely beautiful and deeply affecting exploration of connection and loss in an age of planetary trauma. When scientist Kate Larkin joins a secretive project to re-engineer the climate by resurrecting extinct species, she becomes enmeshed in another, even more clandestine program to recreate our long-lost relatives, the Neanderthals. But when the first of the children, a girl called Eve, is born, Kate finds herself torn between her duties as a scientist and her urge to protect their time-lost creation. For as Eve grows to adulthood she and Kate must face the question of who and what she is. Is she natural or artificial? Human or non-human? And perhaps most importantly, as civilisation unravels around them, is Eve the ghost species, or are we? Thrillingly original, Ghost Species is embedded with a deep love and understanding of the natural world.

Bookings for the webinar are required via Eventbrite. The link can be found at Central West Libraries website www.cwl.nsw.gov.au

Ticketholders will be sent the Zoom Webinar links and Zoom Webinar password via email prior to the event.