Gail Jones lives in Sydney. She has written short stories and novels and has been short listed for major national and international awards such as the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. 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