Michael Campbell

He has a theory about the way that music was developed, was primitive cultures mimicked the sounds around them, the bird song and everything.

So he decides to go way up, let's say, call it the Amazon, to find a tribe who have had little access

with the outside world to test his theory.

And, of course, he finds out his theory is completely wrong.

Yeah.

So it's this idea of this constructed reality and then faced with the actual reality.

Outside of SE Hinton.

Again, we're talking about it was a very young writer who wrote it.

It's fresh.

It's raw.

It's immediate.

It is that kind of immediacy which ensures that the connection to the reader is absolute.

If you're coming into Western Sydney, there's writers like Felicity Castagne.

I got caught by Felicity and I picked her book up when I knew that I was going into Westwards and working in Western Sydney.

The Incredible Here and Now.

It won the Prime Minister's 2015 Young Adult Award.

And it's better that she describes it.

Some people say West like it is something wrong, like ice cream that fell in the gutter.

I think West is like my brother's music.

Too much bass so you end up dancing like your body parts don't fit together and laughing all at the same time.