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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The Work Wives
- Author: Rachael Johns
- Publisher: Harper Collins
- Published: November 2022
My paperback copy of The Work Wives is a treasure, as it was gifted to me and personally inscribed by my truly marvellous Writing WA work wife. As someone who …
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Dirrarn
- Author: Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler
- Publisher: Magabala Books
- Published: August 2023
Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler’s latest novel for young readers, Dirrarn, is a sequel to Black Cockatoo. Whereas Black Cockatoo focuses on Mia’s life in remote Australia, surrounded by her …
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Clean
- Author: Scott-Patrick Mitchell
- Publisher: Upswell Publishing
- Published: March 2022
Anyone who ever made anything worthwhile is or was an addict of sorts. In this impressive first (full-length) collection, Scott-Patrick Mitchell (hereafter SPM) brings us news from hell. And it’s …
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Jirdarup Bushland and the Friends who care for it
- Author: Dr Lesley van Schoubroeck
- Publisher: Friends of Jirdarup Bushland
- Published: September 2023
I’m a country kid, born and raised on a large sheep and crop farm on the outskirts of Ongerup, Western Australia. Growing up surrounded by an expanse of broadacre paddocks …
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