Category Archives: Mystery & Crime

Watch at the Library – SWF21

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Are you tired of watching online author talks by yourself?
Want to meet with other book lovers?

This year, in partnership with the State Library of NSW, Sydney Writers’ Festival presents a reimagined digital iteration of the Festival’s beloved Suburban and Regional Library Program.

Enter the minds behind our most borrowed books with these events live-streamed from the State Library of NSW to Parramatta Library. Featuring award-winning and bestselling Australian authors Kate Grenville, Anita Heiss and Candice Fox, in conversation each evening from Tuesday to Thursday of Festival week. 

Parramatta Library will be hosting ‘Watch at the Library’ events where you can watch the author talk each night live streamed on the big screen with other book lovers.
Seats are limited so register your place now:

Watch at the Library – Kate Grenville – Tuesday 27 April, 6.30pm – register here
Watch at the Library – Anita Heiss – Wednesday 28 April, 6.30pm – register here
Watch at the Library – Candice Fox – Thursday 29 April, 6.30pm – register here

All three conversations are available to stream from the comfort of your home too. 

Podcast Mystery Fiction

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One of the most popular fiction genres, mysteries take the reader on a journey that involves trying to solve a puzzle, finding clues, engaging in logical deduction, considering (and discarding) red herrings… the who, why and how of a crime that must be solved, an event that must be explained.

Join Nisa and Crystal as they discuss a mix of classics and new books in the genre:

Death in the East – Abir Mukherjee. Penguin Random House, 2019

The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman. Viking Press, 2020

Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie. Collins Crime Club, 1934 and

Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie and François Rivière. Harper, 2007

A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle. Beeton’s Christmas Annual Magazine, 1887

Happy Listening!

Extra Reads – December 2020

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  • The chicken sisters
  • Destination wedding
  • The promise
  • Captain Moxley and the embers of the empire
  • How to fail at flirting
  • A warm heart in winter
  • Dancing in the mosque
  • A most English princess
  • Box 88
  • After sundown
  • Beneath the moon

Looking for even more reads being published this month? These are the titles that didn’t make it into the ‘All About Books‘ Summer 2020/21 edition – we just didn’t have room for them. Why not take a look (we all know we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover…but we all do!), click on a cover to read more about it and reserve your copy.

Good Reads Choice Awards 2020

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Announcing the winners of the 12th Annual Goodreads Choice Awards, a major book award decided by readers. Congratulations to the best books of the year! Did one of your favourites become a winner?  Click on the titles below to reserve your copy now.

Best Fiction – The midnight library by Matt Haig
Best Mystery & Thriller – The guest list by Lucy Foley
Best Historical Fiction – The vanishing half by Brit Bennett
Best Fantasy – The house of Earth and blood by Sarah J. Maas
Best Romance – From blood and ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Best Science Fiction – To sleep in a sea of stars by Christopher Paolini
Best Horror – Mexican gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia
Best Humour – Strange planet by Nathan W. Pyle
Best Non Fiction – Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Best Memoir & Autobiography – A promised land by Barack Obama
Best History & Biography – Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Best Science & Technology – A life on our planet by David Attenborough
Best Food & Cookbooks – Modern comfort food by Ina Garten
Best Graphic Novels & Comics – Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman
Best Poetry – Dearly by Margaret Atwood
Best Debut Novel – Such a fun age by Kiley Reid
Best Young Adult Fiction – Clap when you land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Best Young Adult Fantasy – The queen of nothing by Holly Black
Best Middle Grade & Children’s – The tower of Nero by Rick Riordan
Best Picturebook – Antiracist baby by Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrations)

All About Books – Summer 2020/21

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It’s that time of year again when the new edition of our reading suggestions guide for adults and teens, ‘All About Books’, is ready to inspire your reading. The Summer 2020/21 edition features a diverse range of titles being published over the next three months – there is a little something for everyone. We may not have as much time during the festive season but hopefully these titles will encourage you to read and relax when you can. Collect your copy at any branch of the City of Parramatta Libraries or download it now, check our website (parra.city/library) for the latest news and opening hours. Don’t forget you can click on any cover to reserve the titles that you would like to borrow, even before they have been published, so as always happy reading!