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Author Evening with Suzanne Falkiner at Barry O'Keefe Library

April 27, 2022 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Rose is the extraordinary true story of Rose de Freycinet, wife, stowaway and the first woman to record her voyage around the world. A tale about courage and enduring love.Unable to bear parting from her husband, she dressed in men’s clothing and slipped secretly aboard his ship the day before it sailed on a voyage of scientific discovery to the South Seas. See More
Mar 4, 2022
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Author Evening with Carly Findlay OAM at Online talk via Zoom

December 2, 2021 from 7pm to 8pm
As part of Council’s celebration of International Day of People with Disability, join acclaimed author and speaker Carly Findlay, OAM as she discusses her book Growing up Disabled in Australia, published by Black Inc Books.Carly is the editor of this rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives – a group whose voices are not heard often enough.In Growing Up Disabled in Australia – compiled by writer and appearance activist Carly Findlay OAM – more than forty…See More
Nov 26, 2021

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Blackbirders by Dorothy B Hughes

Brilliant noir fiction by one of the best but often forgotten authors, Dorothy B Hughes. There were so many plot twists and turns I was riveted. Who is the gray man -innocent traveller, Gestapo, FBI or none of these things. Is  he really a danger to the equally mysterious protagonist Julliet, on the run from being a potential suspect in a murder. Moving from New York to Santa Fe and set during World War II and full of men in hats lurking in bars and street corners, train journeys taken by…

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Posted by Therese Scott on October 8, 2018 at 17:20

Stella Prize 2018 Longlist Announced

Posted by Lindach on February 9, 2018 at 11:24

#MosmanReads is Coming in 2018

Posted by Karen Redlich on December 27, 2017 at 11:11

Book Reviews

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

When I finished reading Pachinko and couldn’t recover from my book hangover, I knew Min Jin Lee’s debut novel was the answer to my literary woes. Free Food for Millionaires, released ten years before the hugely successful Pachinko, tells the story of first-generation Korean-American Casey Han and the wide cast of characters who inhabit her world. She has just graduated from Princeton with expensive tastes in clothing (and the credit card debt to match) and no clear direction in life. We watch,…Continue

Started by Renee Fittler in Fiction A-Z (General) Feb 18, 2019.

Prairie Fires: the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize,  this is a comprehensive biography of the iconic writer Laura Ingalls Wilder of 'Little House on the Prairie' fame amongst many other titles. Her stories  of a simple, happy but sometimes hard and cruel life on the prairies as a child and then with her husband are some of the most popular in American literature, up there with 'Little Women'. I found the first section very interesting as it went through the violent and fraught years for the Indigenous population,…Continue

Started by Therese Scott in Biography Oct 9, 2018.

The Blackbirder by Dorothy B Hughes

Brilliant noir fiction by one of the best but often forgotten authors, Dorothy B Hughes. There were so many plot twists and turns I was riveted. Who is the gray man -innocent traveller, Gestapo, FBI or none of these things. Is he really a danger to the equally mysterious protagonist Julliet, on the run from being a potential suspect in a murder. Moving from New York to Santa Fe and set during World War II , it is full of men in hats lurking in bars and street corners, train journeys taken by…Continue

Started by Therese Scott in Detective/Mystery/Crime Oct 9, 2018.

Mister Pip / by Lloyd Jones

One of the best things about reading this fine book was my ability to complete it while here at the Byron Bay Writer's Festival, a celebration of quality literature and authors.  I might add it was a double pleasure after attending the dismal, depressing APLIC conference at Gold Coast last week where I had the unusual experience of sharing a large convention hall of "librarians" who had nothing to say about books.But on to the story at hand.  Matilda is the single child of Delores, a woman…Continue

Started by Kim Allen Scott in Fiction A-Z (General) Aug 6, 2018.

 
 
 

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