CQU Press launches 2 books at Byron Bay Writers' Festival
Published on 13 July, 2006
CQU Press is launching Michael Wilding’s 'Wild Amazement' and David Myers’s 'Glorious Gods and Swaggering Heroes' on August 6, during the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival.
Members of the public can gain free admission to the double book launch by emailing d.myers@cqu.edu.au or phoning 07 5552 4960 before the event.
Wilding is doing a separate session in which he is being interviewed by former Senator Irina Dunn and Myers is also doing a separate session entitled 'Digging up the Past'. To arrange admission to these sessions please email cqupress@cqu.edu.au .
Over the years, the Byron Bay Festival has grown from a regional celebration to a huge, nationwide showcase that takes up a full week.
In his role as CQU Press Director, Professor Myers said the Press is proud to be a part of this festival.
'Glorious Gods and Swaggering Heroes - Swashbuckling Tales from the Greek Myths' will be available from CQU Press for $29.95.
According to Myers, this is a very funny book about the Classical Greek Outback 3000 years ago.
"Where we Australians have bunyips, rainbow serpents and Min Min lights, the Greeks had nymphs, flying horses, gods in winged chariots, monsters with six heads and sphinxes," he said. "The average Australian thinks that the classical Greek myths are only for white-bearded scholars and academic eggheads. This need not be so.
"The myths are the greatest fantasy stories ever told and here they are presented with comedy and suspense and down-to-earth language".
Meanwhile, Wilding's 'Wild Amazement' will be on sale from CQU Press for $25.95.
'Wild Amazement' explores the shadowy interface of literature and politics, bohemian excess and globalised control.
From a traditional magic mushroom Australian Christmas, to filming a television documentary in the pastoral heart of England, from an Oxbridge conference on masks and masking, to deep suspicion in the isles of Greece, Michael Wilding's novel in the form of an autobiography, or autobiography in the form of a novel, is a magnificent panorama of how we have come to live the way we live now.