The Valley, Steve Hawke (Fremantle Press)
March 2019 Book of the MonthSteve 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 ...
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Driving Into the Sun, Marcella Polain (Fremantle Press)
February 2019 Book of the MonthTwelve 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 ...
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Hive, A.J. Betts (Pan Australia)
January 2019 Book of the MonthPrologue: 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 ...
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The Children’s House, Alice Nelson (Random House)
October 2018 Book of the MonthThis 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 ...
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The Art of Persuasion, Susan Midalia (Fremantle Press)
May 2018 Book of the MonthSusan Midalia’s first novel and fourth book is a tender, smart and funny meditation on the ethics of reproduction, consumerism, conscience and political conviction. When twentyfive-year-old Hazel meets Adam ...
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