Cuckoo – a review

Title: Cuckoo

Author: Julia Crouch 

Sarah P’s pick

Rose and Gareth live an idyllic life in the English countryside with their school aged daughter Anna and new baby Flossie.  Then Rose’s oldest friend Polly calls from Greece to say her husband has died and Rose invites Polly and her two sons to stay with them, against her husband’s wishes. Continue reading

IMPAC International 2011 Dublin Literary Award

2011 IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award goes to Colum McCann for his novel Let the great world spin. The book has beaten off competition from 161 other titles, nominated by 166 public libraries from 43 countries. Continue reading

#readit2011 whodoneit – July reading

#readit2011 state wide (http://readit2011.wordpress.com/) reading challenge for July is ‘whodoneit’ – mysteries and crime reading. Parramatta City Library has come up with some interesting titles available from both fiction and non fiction collection. Those two bookmarks are for a start.

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