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.

Stella Prize Longlist 2014 & Shortlist

We are thrilled to know the 2014 Stella Prize longlist has been announced:

Letter to George Clooney by Debra Adelaide

Moving Among Strangers by Gabrielle Carey

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (shortlisted)

Night Games by Anna Krien (shortlisted)

Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko

The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane (shortlisted)

Boy, Lost by Kristina Olsson (shortlisted)

The Misogyny Factor by Anne Summers

Madeleine by Helen Trinca

The Swan Book by Alexis Wright (shortlisted)

The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright (shortlisted)

All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

For more details you can look up

http://thestellaprize.com.au/the-stella-prize/2014-2/longlist-2014/

Staff Pick

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Behind the SunDeborah Challinor

Book Summary

Four woman on a perilous voyage to a new world can rely only on their wits – and each other.Friday Woolfe, is in London’s notorious Newgate gaol, awaiting transportation. There, she meets three other girls: intelligent and opportunistic thief, Sarah Morgan, naive young Rachel Winter, and reliable and capable seamstress, Harriet Clarke. On the voyage to New South Wales their friendship becomes an unbreakable bond.

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