Fiction
A World of Other People, Steven Carroll (HarperCollins)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan (Vintage Australia)
The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane (Penguin: Hamish Hamilton)
Coal Creek, Alex Miller (Allen & Unwin)
Belomor, Nicolas Rothwell (Text Publishing)
Join us on Remembrance Day and meet Steve Sailah, former ABC correspondent and the recipient of 2 prestigious Walkley Awards.
Steve will be talling about his latest book, A Fatal Tide, set in Gallipoli.
To book your place call 9806 5159.
Growing up on the family sheep and wheat farm near Young, NSW, Hugh ‘Obi’ O’Brien was the second of four sporty and competitive sons. Attending Sydney boarding school St Joseph’s College, a rugby academy, old-school English customs and Dickensian group living that honed his fast developing survival skills. His lacklustre performance in both sporting and academic endeavours ingrained a sense of underachievement that would fuel his later success in the Special Forces. Continue reading
Title: Goddess
Author: Kelly Gardiner
Fourth Estate, 2014
Katherine’s pick
For any reader who has enjoyed Kelly Gardiner‘s Young Adult fiction & poetry, this new addition to her work is a real treat.
Goddess is very much an adult novel though, based on the life of Julie d’Aubigny a larger than life character who lived in the seventeenth century. Known as La Maupin, the Goddess of the title embarks on a life of fearless adventure. Obviously a talented and beguilingly beautiful young woman, she goes from humble beginnings to become a star of the famed Paris Opera. Tempestuous and volatile she blazes a trail across Europe falling love with both men and woman, Original and witty this is a rollicking read, that doesn’t disappoint.
