Our librarians, Katherine and Nisa provide an overview of popular period drama DVDs that are available at the library.
https://youtu.be/u2M0YembEuc
Click links below to reserve these items:
1) Medici: Masters of Florence [DVD]
2) The White Queen [DVD]
3) The White Princess [DVD]
4) The Borgias [DVD]
5) The Tudors [DVD]
6) Reign [DVD]
7) Versailles [DVD]
8) Victoria [DVD]
9) The Crown [DVD]
Welcome to the latest edition, Spring 2018, of our reading suggestions guide – All About Books. It is full of reading ideas for all ages with a selection of the most interesting and exciting reads to be published over the next 3 months. Pick up your FREE copy in one of our City of Parramatta Libraries or click on the cover to download now. We hope you enjoy our selections and happy reading!
This Summer City of Parramatta Library is running an ‘All Australian Summer Reading Challenge’ for readers 18+ years.
The challenge runs from Monday 4 December 2017 to 26 February 2018.
It’s easy to participate, read 10 books written by Australian authors over Summer to enter a draw to win 1 of 3 Australian book packs!
You might be asking yourself why we decided to run an All Australian Summer Reading Challenge? The answer is simple really, City of Parramatta Library staff are huge readers of Australian authors, and we also get lots of enquiries from our readers to recommend Australian authors. Given that we thought it would be a great opportunity to assist our readers in discovering the wonderful world of Australian authors available at the Library!
Don’t forget you can always choose to enjoy an ebook as part of your challenge or even a selection of the great audio and eAudio books we have available. Personally I love listening to audio books, and most of my favourites are written by Australian authors. At the top of my list for audio books would have to be Beauty in Thorns by Kate Forsyth. While I read and loved the book, the audio book added such depth and feeling to the writing. Anyway enough about audio books, I could write another 500 words; instead I will share with you my Top 10 Australian authors, which believe me was really hard to narrow down!
In no particular order:
Kate Forsyth
Caroline Overington
Sara Foster
Inga Simpson
Kylie Kaden
Trudi Canavan
Nicola Moriarty (yes she is related to Liane Moriarty and in my opinion a talented writer)
Jane Harper
Craig Silvey
AB Facey
To check out a wider list of authors take a look at our Australian Authors Guide and Australian Writers from Diverse Background.
Download an entry form Web – All Australian Summer Reading Challenge Booklet
Good Luck with the challenge everyone, I hope you discover some great new authors to read!
Happy Reading
Jody
The winners of the Good Reads Best Books of 2016 have been announced – did your favourite win?
Categories included: Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Horror, Humour, Non Fiction, Memoir & Autobiography, History & Biography, Science & Technology, Food & Cookbooks, Graphic Novels & Comics, Poetry, Debut Goodreads Author, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction, Middle Grade & Children’s, and Picturebook.
HINT – Click on the category below to see the winner and shortlisted books and click on the title to reserve your copy of the winner now. The Library has all of the winning books and many of the shortlisted ones. Continue reading
The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
The Dressmaker is a modern Australian classic, much loved for its bittersweet humour. Set in the 1950s, its subjects include haute couture, love and hate, and a cast of engagingly eccentric characters. It is now a major motion picture, starring Kate Winslet and fine Australian actors including Judy Davis, Hugo Weaving, Liam Hemsworth and extras from the author’s hometown of Jerilderie.
Comments
What a great read! We thought this book was going to be a story of true love and redemption. Instead it was a pleasant surprise to find it was more about revenge with a little dark humour. A very enjoyable read that was extremely well written. Linguistically the book was beautiful. Allowing us to feel like the characters were real people and that the town of Dungatar was a real place.
While some of us found the start was a little slow and complicated with lots of characters to keep track off, the book soon found an easy rhythm. We all loved the book’s heroine and the cleverness with which she sort revenge her fellow townsfolk.
Rating 9/10
Read by – Cultcha Club Book Club