Noel Braun is coming to Nathalia Library!

Media Release

Author encourages adventure at any age.

Noel Braun doesn’t know what it means to sit still. In 2010, at 77 years of age, Noel undertook his first walk along the Camino de Santiago. Noel’s experiences trekking the Camino have been the inspiration for many of his books. His latest book, No Comfort on a Chilly Night, is no exception.

Noel’s seventh and most recent book is a romance novel focusing on relationships impacted by distance. Listen to Noel talk about his journey in writing a character who struggles to reconcile his sacrifice of love in the pursuit of career success.

Felix Schmidt is backpacking on the Camino de Santiago when he meets the love of his life, the beautiful French Pascaline. He brings her back to Australia where he joins a new firm of management consultants. Deeply engrossed in the company’s growth, he neglects Pascaline. She believes his addiction has reduced him as a person, wearies of his obsessive workaholism and returns to France.

Noel Braun commenced his working life as a country schoolteacher before moving into a corporate career, which took him from Melbourne to Perth and Sydney. He has had a lifelong passion for writing and wrote the first words of his novels fifty years ago. After a busy career and raising a family of four, he has found the time in retirement to fulfill long-held ambition to see his work in print.
Noel has published two novels: Friend and Philosopher and Whistler Street. He has published a memoir, No Way to Behave at a Funeral which describes his grief journey following the death by suicide of his wife Maris, and three explorations of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela: The Day was Made for Walking, I Guess I’ll Just Keep on Walking and Keep Pressing On, Brother.
Come along to hear Noel speak and be inspired by his life of adventure and writing.

If you would like to join Noel Braun at the Nathalia Library on Tuesday 24th October at 2.00pm please contact Goulburn Valley Libraries on 1300 374 765 or email gvlibraries@gvlibraries.com.au Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. If you can’t make it to the event in Nathalia, don’t worry, Noel is also speaking at Avenel Library on Wednesday 25th at 1.30pm, Shepparton Library on Thursday 26th at 2.00pm, Tatura Library on Thursday 26th at 6.30pm and Murchison Heritage Centre on Friday 27th October at 10.30am.

For more information:

Bronwyn Cole
Program Co-ordinator, Goulburn Valley Libraries
Tel: 1300 374 765
Email: bronwync@gvlibraries.com.au