It’s been a tough few weeks but spring is just around the corner. So, here are the latest ebooks, audiobooks and TV shows to lift your spirits. We’re bringing you the best content thanks to our friends at Scribd.
This week, we look at a searing examination into the Australian agricultural industry in Kate Holden’s ‘The Winter Road’, learn how to be effectively heard in Veronica Rueckert’s ‘Outspoken’, and also get hooked on The Show of 2021, ‘Hacks’, streaming on Stan.
Listen: Kate Holden – “The Winter Road”
It is extremely rare to come across a book told with the perfect balance of rigour, suspense, craft and humanity. It’s even more rare to discover the book is not a work of fiction, but a true story.
On July 29, 2014, in a narrow lane between Moree and Croppa Creek, Glen Turner, a compliance officer from the Office of Environment and Heritage was shot multiple times by an 80-year old farmer, Ian Turnbull.
This story is a riveting look into the heritage of our national agricultural enterprise, the war waged between government officials and farmers, the land and those who want to control the land. What does it mean to cultivate a piece of land for the future? Where does farming end and destruction begin?
This work of non-fiction is an exploration of the political and metaphysical consequences of raking the land and the challenges of native vegetation protection legislation. Holden’s language is searing and sharp.
Listen to it here, on Scribd.
Read: Veronica Rueckert – “Outspoken: Why Women’s Voices Get Silenced and How to Set Them Free”
Ever feel you’re not being heard? At home, at work, in public, at the gym? In the playground? Have you felt that when you do speak up, you’re labeled pushy, loud, and too much? When you’re quiet though, have you been dismissed as meek and mild?
Around the world, women are interrupted far more often than men. It’s scientifically proven. For years, researchers have found that female executives who speak more often than their peers are rated 14 percent less competent, while male executives who do the same enjoy a 10 percent competency bump.
What on earth can we do? There’s no straight answer, but Veronica Rueckert has a few good ideas.
Read it here on Scribd.
Watch: HACKS (streaming on Stan)
On her new show “Hacks,” Jean Smart plays a woman who has a difficult time adapting to a new era in the entertainment industry.
Think, Emma Thompson, in the 2019 movie, Late Night. In that comedy, Mindy Kaling plays the funny brown girl who gets a job to tell jokes that reverberate with a younger audience.
Hacks is really similar. Sharp and clever and really, really funny.
Jean Smart’s Deborah lives in Las Vegas, where she works really, really hard by telling jokes about having sex with old men, her ageing body and geriatric life.
The former host at Wisconsin Public Radio, who was also a trained opera singer and communications coach teaches us in her book ‘Outspoken’ to recognise the value of our own voices and tap into their inherent power, potential, and capacity for self-expression.
Detailing how to communicate in meetings, converse around the dinner table, and dominate political debates, Outspoken provides readers with the tools, guidance, and encouragement they need to learn to love our voices. It’s time to stop shutting up and start speaking out.
Her comedy is based around her simply showing up at random places: like selling jewellery on the home-shopping channel on television. She’s losing her spark though.
Enter younger, hipper female comedian, Ava. After a witty back and forth feisty first encounter, Ava is hired to write new material for Deborah. And an unexpected, complex friendship is born.
Stream here on Stan.
