Book Club

The Salt Madonna, Catherine Noske (Picador)

April 2020 Book of the Month

Hannah Mulvey left her island home as a teenager. But her stubborn, defiant mother is dying, and now Hannah has returned to Chesil, taking up a teaching post at ...

Fauna, Donna Mazza, (Allen & Unwin)

March 2020 Book of the Month

A young family in an eerily familiar future-Perth comes to terms with the latest addition to their family, a baby girl named Asta. While Asta is the child of ...

Red Can Origami, Madelaine Dickie (Fremantle Press)

February 2020 Book of the Month

When young Melbourne journalist Ava lands herself a job in the northwest town of Gubinge, she is warned the “country will eat you alive”. Instead, she finds “it’s got ...

Read the Book Club notes for In This Desert, There were Seeds; various contributors, ed. Elizabeth Tan and Jon Gresham (Margaret River Press and Ethos Publishing)

In This Desert, There were Seeds; various contributors, ed. Elizabeth Tan and Jon Gresham (Margaret River Press and Ethos Publishing)

January 2020 Book of the Month

In This Desert, There were Seeds is a beguiling anthology of twenty short stories from West Australian and Singaporean artists. As part of an ongoing collaboration between Writing WA ...

Out of Time, Steve Hawke (Fremantle Press)

December 2019 Book of the Month

Architect Joe Warton and his partner Anne are easing into comfortable semi-retirement when Joe notices gaps in his memory. At first he keeps his discovery to himself, becoming skilful ...

The Palace of Angels, Mohammed Massoud Morsi (Wild Dingo Press)

November 2019 Book of the Month

The Palace of Angels comprises three novellas, all dealing with the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. The first is titled What is Past is Dead. It is the story of a group ...

Invisible Boys, Holden Sheppard (Fremantle Press)

October 2019 Book of the Month

In a small town, everyone thinks they know you: Charlie is a hardcore rocker, who’s not as tough as he looks. Hammer is a footy jock with big AFL ...

Refuge, Richard Rossiter (UWA Publishing)

September 2019 Book of the Month

Refuge is a meditation on place and belonging which intertwines the stories of a tenderly portrayed and compelling cast of characters. Each in their bush shacks, Greta and Tinny ...

The Wooleen Way, David Pollock (Scribe)

August 2019 Book of the Month

David Pollock’s engrossing read tells the story of his passionate mission to renew his family’s massive pastoral property in Western Australia’s southern rangelands. It follows on from his appearances ...

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 ...

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