The new Autumn 2017 edition of our reading guide, All About Books is now available. For your FREE copy ask a Library Staff member at any of our branches.
It is filled with lots of reading ideas to inspire you over the season and has a little something for everyone…check out our special Books to Screen section, so many wonderful titles are being made into a movie or tv series this year.
Can’t get to the Library and don’t want to wait until your next visit? Click on the cover to download your copy.
Book review: A woman looking at men looking at woman
Title: A woman looking at men looking at woman: essays on art, sex and the mind
Author: Siri Hustvedt
Reviewed by Katherine
A collection of essays on art, feminism psychology, philosophy and science, this book is not for the faint hearted. Siri Hustvedt has brought her formidable intellect to the topic of biology and how the human intellect works as she discusses the bridge between the humanities and the sciences. Continue reading
Book Review: The good people
The 1st Wed Reading Group at Parramatta Library discussed ‘The good people‘ by Hannah Kent.
This is the second novel written by Hannah Kent after much acclaimed Burial rites.
‘Nóra Leahy has lost her daughter and her husband in the same year, and is now burdened with the care of her four-year-old grandson, Micheál. The boy cannot walk, or speak, and Nora, mistrustful of the tongues of gossips, has kept the child hidden from those who might see in his deformity evidence of otherworldly interference. Continue reading
ABIAs Longlist 2017
If you’re looking for more books to read, here is a very comprehensive list form Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) which has announced its longlist 2017.
Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2017
On International Women’s Day, sixteen brilliant books were selected to make up this year’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist.
The longlisted books are as follows:
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Little Deaths by Emma Flint
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
Midwinter by Fiona Melrose
The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan
The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain