Book Club
If you belong to a book club and are wondering what book you should read next, subscribe to receive our free monthly Book Club e-news. Each edition of the Love to Read Local Book Club e-news contains detailed information about our selected ‘Book of the Month’ with accompanying notes to prompt discussion in your group!
Book of the month
Finding Our Humanity, Leif Cocks (The Orangutan Project)
Using a seamless blend of personal anecdote, philosophical and psychological discussion and the gentle presentation of scientific evidence, Finding our Humanity convincingly builds the case for understanding our place ...
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Rogue
- Author: A.J. Betts
- Publisher: Pan Australia
Rogue is the phenomenal second novel in the duology that began with Hive. Teenaged Hayley has been ejected from her insular underwater world and is adrift in a vast ocean. …
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A Stolen Life: the Bruce Trevorrow Case
- Author: Antonio Buti
- Publisher: Fremantle Press
Antonio Buti’s A Stolen Life charts the circumstances behind the removal of Ngarrindjeri man Bruce Trevorrow from his family as a baby by the South Australian Aboriginal Protection Board, and …
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The Wreckers’ Revenge
- Author: Norman Jorgensen
- Publisher: Fremantle Press
Red Read finds himself expelled from his Perth boarding school, and awaits twenty lashes with a birch. Fortunately, smuggler Captain Black Bowen intervenes and soon Red is back aboard the …
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Blood in the Dust
- Author: Bill Swiggs
- Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Set in Victoria in 1853, Blood in the Dust is a fast-paced novel from the winner of the best unpublished manuscript category of the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. When …
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