Sarah P’s pick
Set over four years around 70 AD and based on the true story of nine hundred Jews holding out against the might of the Roman army in the desert at Masada, this novel tells the story through four female characters who have taken refuge there. Continue reading
Last Tuedsay the reading group gathered at Parramatta Library for their first meeting in 2012. They’d just finished their reading “People of the book” by Geraldine Brooks. Continue reading
Author: Michael Kirby
Title: A Private Life
Yan and Katherine’s pick
Michael Kirby was a talented kid who grew up in Concord, then a working class suburb. He was educated in the Public school system, gaining entry into the OC class in Summer Hill Public school, then went on to the selective Fort Street High. His was very Sydneyand indeed, the book gives a very private life. Continue reading
Title: Remember Me?
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Jenny’s pick
Imagine waking up to discover you don’t recognize your life.
Lexi Smart wakes up in aLondonhospital after a car accident thinking she has a boyfriend called “loser Dave”. She is a sale associate in flooring, and has just missed her father’s funeral. Then she realizes she has lost 3 years of memory and is amazed to find she now has the perfect life. Continue reading
Robin Walsh is the curator of the Lachlan Macquarie Room in the Macquarie University Library. For the past 20 years he has been actively investigating the life of Elizabeth macquarie to piece together her relationship with Governor Lachlan Macquarie, their life together in colonial Sydney and the history of their Jarvishfield estate on the Isle of Mull in Scotland. Continue reading