Book Club
If you belong to a book club and are wondering what book you should read next, check out the titles in our Book Club and subscribe to receive our free Love to Read Local e-news. Each month we add to our book club recommendations with a new-release title that we’ve selected as our ‘Book of the Month’, and provide accompanying notes to prompt discussion in your group!
Book of the month
Three Can Keep A Secret
Night Parrot publishers Linda Martin and Laura Keenan have done it again with their third flash-fiction anthology, Three Can Keep A Secret. ‘It’ in this case is a diverse, compelling and surprising ...
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Who Comes Calling?
- Author: Miriam Wei Wei Lo
- Publisher: WA Poets Publishing
- Published: May 2023
Miriam Wei Wei Lo is a Canadian-born, Fremantle-based poet of Chinese-Malaysian and Anglo-Australian descent who “writes because life is too short to let it pass without comment.” Her first collection, …
Read moreThe Rip
- Author: Holly Craig
- Publisher: Thames and Hudson
- Published: February 2024
The Rip by Holly Craig delves into the intricate dynamics of female relationships, envy, and the haunting allure of other people’s lives. Set against the remote backdrop of Rottnest Island, …
Read moreGhost Poetry
- Author: Robbie Coburn
- Publisher: Upswell Publishing
- Published: January 2024
Melbourne-based poet Robbie Coburn’s latest poetry collection gallops and canters across the page; but it also soars Pegasus-like above a physical and emotional landscape where herds of fantasies, dreams and …
Read moreRight Way Down and other poems
It is something of a job perk to sign up for a book review only to find oneself thinking about one’s own writing and creativity. But then, Right Way Down …
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