Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Debra Adelaide discussing her collection Zebra.

Debra Adelaide’s Zebra is a collection of fourteen stories; from the hilarity of an intricately catered Xmas lunch to the horror of a future Australia where the Northern Territory Intervention is taken to a hideous conclusion. The titular story in the collection is a novella exploring the rule of a very different kind of Australian Prime Minister. Overseeing a period of calm and prosperity she’s unsure of herself privately but undoubtedly a public success; the stories focuses on her creation of a unique public garden for The Lodge while attempting to manage the relationships around her. Oh, and she’s also given a Zebra as a gift…