Blue Mountains Writers Festival 2024: Cults, Clubs and Pyramid Schemes with Lech Blaine

Authors have long been fascinated by the very human need to belong, and what happens when that need becomes an obsession. A teenage sports game descends into a brawl in Karen Viggers’ Sidelines, two families clash over their beliefs, and their children, in Lech Blaine’s memoir, Australian Gospel, and a 70-year-old alternative health influencer is reunited with her estranged transgender son in Ernest Price’s dry-witted debut, Pyramid of Needs.  

Consider family, religion, identity, sport, diet culture and social media with these three brilliant books.