Rosemary's Newsletter
Author of the Month
Liz Byrski
Liz is a writer and broadcaster with more tan 40 years experience in the British and Australian Media.
She was a broadcaster and executive producer with ABC Radio in Perth and later an advisor to a minister in Western Australian State Government.
She now lectures in Professional and Creative Writing at Curtin University of Technology in Perth.
Book of the Month
The Romanov Secret
Chrissie Bellbrae
This is a dual-timeline story featuring Grand Duchess Tatiana in late 19th/early 20th century Russia and Jean Campaign in 1980’s Melbourne linked by hidden family secrets, maternal love and deceit.
1898. When the legitimacy of Grand Duchess Tatiana Romanov’s marriage to the Tsar’s brother comes into question, her son’s claim to the imperial throne is challenged too. But the Romanov dynasty desperately needs an heir, and their fate lies in the hands of the tyrannical Russian ruler.
1982 Fashion buyer Jean Campaign has never forgiven her artist mother Aurora for making her relinquish her child. When Jean inherits the Archibald prize-winner’s previously unknown self-portrait, she is compelled to interpret its hidden symbolism. – and face the events that tore her family apart.
Recommeded Reads
Mary Penfold
Grantlee Kieza
This inspiring story of Mary Penfold the mother of the Australian wine industry – self-taught vintner and business genius who emigrated to a frontier settlement and built her family’s small vineyard into one of the world’s most respected winemakers.
The Other Child
Susi Fox
Powerful, compelling and heart racing, prepare for another edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller from the author of Mine
All That Lives
James Oswald
An archaeological dig at the old South Leith parish kirkyard has turned up a seven-hundred-year-old victim.
Then a second body is unearthed, a woman who went missing only thirty years ago. It barely seems possible that the two are connected, but the similarities are hard to deny.
Inspector McLean is faced with solving this impossible crime before more bodies are discovered. But the next victim – and the person responsible – may be much closer to home than he realises.
