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Gail Jones is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. She is the author of two short-story collections and ten novels, and has been shortlisted for major national and international awards including the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Her work has been translated into several languages and has received numerous literary awards including the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize for Salonika Burning. Originally from Western Australia, she now lives in Sydney. Nicole Nabout is a Melbourne-based actor who has worked across film, television and stage. She has appeared Blue Heelers, The Librarians, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Wentworth, Nowhere Boys and Offspring. Her stage credits include Much Ado About Nothing and Midsummer Night’s Dream for The Australian Shakespeare Company. Nicole has also previously narrated The Orchard by Eva Tatina and Losing Face by George Haddad.
'Gail Jones has to be one of Australia’s most consistently impressive writers. Her prose is evocative, her plots meaningful and her characters drawn with considerable care…[Salonika Burning] is just as reliably lush, moving and literary as everything else she’s written.' -- Guardian 'Elegant and intensely ruminative ... Jones’s language in Salonika Burning is at once muscular and delicate, her narrative precise yet impressionistic ... Jones has written some fine novels ... but none finer than Salonika Burning.’ -- Australian Book Review 'Fans of Jones’s gift with words will appreciate this moving, poetic and meditative tribute to war, suffering, fortitude and the human spirit.' -- Books+Publishing
