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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!

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Book of the month

Tiny Uncertain Miracles

Marick is a late-to-God chaplain whose pastoral services bleed into the overlap between god and science. He provides peace for those whose personal realities are fraught with pain, routinely ...

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What we are reading

Bush Mob Counting

  • Author: Helen Milroy
  • Publisher: Magabala Books
  • Published: 2022

Readers of the ‘Tales from the Bush Mob’ books will recognise Helen Milroy’s colourful patterns and bright illustrations featuring the animal characters from the series. Dingo greets us at the …

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The Cast Aways of Harewood Hall

  • Author: Karen Herbert
  • Publisher: Fremantle Press
  • Published: 2022

Well-meaning student Josh rescues two research mice from his university and, without realising the mice could be carrying a deadly disease, hides them in the basement of the Harewood Hall …

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The Glass House

  • Author: Brooke Dunnell
  • Publisher: Fremantle Press
  • Published: 2022

Brooke Dunnell’s The Glass House tells the tale of Julia Lambett, a thirty-something year old Melbournian woman whose marriage is dissolving behind a facade of performative normalcy. When Julia’s elderly …

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Tiny Uncertain Miracles

  • Author: Michelle Johnston
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Published: November 2022

Marick is a haunted chaplain clinging to a compromised conception of faith. Hugo is a scientist, eccentric and brilliant, incubating miracles in the depths of a hospital laundry. Their lives …

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