It’s time for our Winter Reading newsletter. What’s to read in this winter? What’s popular and what’s new @ Parramatta City Library? Well, the newsletter might give you some ideas. There are some highlights in this issue – fiction, non fiction titles, some awards & prizes winning authors, and books made into movies in 2012.
Enjoy reading.
Title: The forgotten affairs of youth
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Yan’s pick
In comparing with his other series, such as ‘The first lady detective’, this series of ‘A Isabel Dalhousie novels’ are very different. They are always set in cosyEdinburgh, with a woman ethics philosopher, Isabel Dalhousie, as the main character. She lives with her younger lover Jamie and their lovely baby son in a comfortable house. Continue reading
This year Orange Prize Fiction winner goes to American author Madeline Miller for her novel ‘The Song of Achilles ‘.
This month the First Wednesday book club met to discuss Graham Greene’s novel Brighton Rock. This novel has strong characters and covers themes such as Catholicism and self-loathing of the body. Continue reading
Norma K. Hemming Award is ‘for excellence in the exploration of race, gender, sexuality, class and disbility in Australian speculative fiction.’ This year the nominees are Continue reading