The jury’s in, sequestered-slash-quarantined overnight on a serious criminal case in the suitably imposing Alice Springs courthouse. But the jury’s well and truly out on whether or not justice will be served, what with all the baggage the jurors have brought to the case, the misapprehensions. 

In this week’s episode of Book Chat, David Jagger discusses his new book, To Kill a Crested Bellbird and Other Short Stories, a ‘loosely law-themed’ short story collection and novella, which casts a wry, unsentimental eye over the grittier aspects of Centralian life.

David Jagger is a long-time Alice Springs-based anthropologist, journalist and writer, who’s worked for 25 years in Aboriginal community development and land rights in Central Australia. His stories have been published in journals and shortlisted in the NT Literary Awards; The Development Drip won the inaugural national Wet Ink Short Story Prize. David is a sometime community broadcaster and a board member of the Arid Lands Environment Centre.