Book Club

Finding Our Humanity, Leif Cocks (The Orangutan Project)

July 2019 Book of the Month

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 ...

A Stolen Life: The Bruce Trevorrow Case, Antonio Buti (Fremantle Press)

June 2019 Book of the Month

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, ...

Step Up, Mrs Dugdale, Lynne Leonhardt (Matilda Bay Books)

May 2019 Book of the Month

When Henrietta Augusta Dugdale was denied access to her three young sons because she could no longer bear to live with their father, it evoked within her a keen ...

Slice Girls: A female surgeon’s remarkable story of blood, bone and the boys’ club, Joan Arakkal (Ventura Press)

April 2019 Book of the Month

This enormously engaging autobiography is not only the story of a clever and courageous woman’s life but also of the differences between attitudes to women in Joan Arakkal’s chosen ...

The Valley, Steve Hawke (Fremantle Press)

March 2019 Book of the Month

Steve Hawke’s The Valley is a stunning debut novel. Set in the Kimberley, mostly in Bunuba country, the novel charts four generations of a family whose secretive lives are ...

Driving Into the Sun, Marcella Polain (Fremantle Press)

February 2019 Book of the Month

Twelve year old Orla’s world is shattered when her favourite parent, her beloved father, dies on his night shift, just before all their collective dreams as a family are ...

Hive, A.J. Betts (Pan Australia)

January 2019 Book of the Month

Prologue: All I can tell you is what I remember, in the words that I have. I’m here because of a drip. A drip I wasn’t supposed to find. They ...

Athenian Blues, Pol Koutsakis (Bitter Lemon Press)

December 2018 Book of the Month

Athenian Blues is the first novel in the Stratos Gazis crime series by Perth-based Greek screenwriter, novelist and playwright Pol Koutsakis. Stratos Gazis is a self-described ‘undertaker’ or fixer, ...

Kathleen O’Connor of Paris, Amanda Curtin (Fremantle Press)

November 2018 Book of the Month

Artist Kathleen (Kate) O’Connor left conservative Perth in 1906 to pursue a life as an artist in Paris. She was a contemporary of Madame Curie, Lucien Simon and Isaac ...

The Children’s House, Alice Nelson (Random House)

October 2018 Book of the Month

This story follows the lives of three interconnected families over a mostly 3-year period in New York. A young Rwandan refugee and her mute child drift towards the kindness ...