The Silkworm – New title by J K Rowling

the-silkwormThe silkworm authored by Rober Galbraith, is J K Rowling‘s new crime fiction.

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days – as he has done before – and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.
But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine’s disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives – so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him.
And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes
a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before.
Parramatta City Library has ordered some copies and waiting for its publishing. You can reserve it online.

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ertTitle – Breathing in Colour

Author – Clare Jay

Book Summary –

‘Your child is missing – presumed dead.’Hours after receiving the phone call that every mother dreads, Alida Salter flies to India to search for her backpacker daughter. The discovery of disturbing collages in Mia’s hotel makes Alida suspect a connection between the disaster that fractured their relationship thirteen years ago, and Mia’s recent, mysterious disappearance.Mia is no ordinary girl. Growing up with the sensory condition synaesthesia – where she sees the world in a kaleidoscope of shapes, colours and smells – she has gone through life with the vivid imagination of an artist, but for years she has shouldered an overwhelming burden of guilt. It has been a difficult relationship, but now comes the toughest test of all…Alida must find the courage to trust her maternal instincts, or lose her daughter forever.

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Doris Lessing dies at the age of 94

Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize winning author has passed away, peacefully at home at the age of 94.

Doris was a prolific writer and reluctant feminist icon, but was first and foremost a storyteller, loyal to the power of the written word.

Some of Doris’s books include:

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YABBAs 2013 Winners

The YABBAs (Yound Australia’s Adult Best Book Awards ) Award winners have been declared for 2013.

Winner Fiction Years 7-9

After by Morris Gleitzman

Publisher – Viking (Penguin) 2012

Winner Fiction Older Readers

26 storey treehouse  by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton

Publisher – Pan Macmillan

2012 Winner Fiction Younger Readers

The golden door by Emily Rodda

Publisher – Omnibus Books, 2011

Winner Picture Story books

Pooka by Carol Chataway & Nina Rycroft

Publisher – Working Title Press, 2012

Graham Davey Citation

The very cranky bear by Nick Bland

Publisher – Penguin, 2008