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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A Firefighter’s Life: The highs, the lows, and being burnt by PTSD
- Author: Anthony Ajduk
- Publisher: Independent
- Published: September 2024
Anthony Ajduk’s memoir, A Firefighter’s Life, is an unflinching account of the dangers, triumphs, and personal costs of a career spent on the front lines of emergency response. With over …
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Netflicks: Conceptual Television in the Streaming Era
- Author: Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
- Publisher: UWA Publishing
- Published: February 2024
UWA Publishing’s Vignettes series has been one of the more dynamic additions to WA’s literary landscape in recent years; as almost a ‘behind-the-scenes’ exploration of the intersection between academia and …
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The Distance Between Dreams
- Author: Emily Paull
- Publisher: Fremantle Press
- Published: April 2025
When Sarah Willis and Winston Keller cross paths at a party in February 1939, it sparks the beginning of a love story that spans many miles and over half a …
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While the Sun Sets
- Author: Bill Powell
- Publisher: Independent
- Published: January 2024
The short story in Western Australia has long been a vital, if sometimes overlooked, form, shaped by the state’s vast landscapes, isolation, and rich Indigenous and settler storytelling traditions. In …
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