Rosemary's Newsletter
Authors of the Month
Anthea Hodgson
Anthea is a country girl from the WA Wheatbelt. She worked as a radio producer in WA, NSW and Queensland before returning to WA, where she lives with her husband and two children. She is the author of The Drifter, The Cowgirl and the highly acclaimed 2023 historical novel based on the Bangka Island Massacre, The War Nurses. She is co-host of the Rachael Johns Book Club on facebook and the podcast Reading Between Deadlines
Mark Smith
Mark lives on the West Coast of Victoria, where he writes and runs outdoor education programs for young adults. In addition to writing, he is an experienced speaker & facilitator at schools, literary festivals and book launches across the country.
Both Anthea & Mark will be in conversation at the BMI this month. Find out more below.
Also coming in July…
Book of the Month
Three Reasons for Revenge
Dervla McTiernan
Alexis Turner walks into the police station to report an assault. By the end of the day, she is nowhere to be found.
Soon after she disappears, three identical packages arrive at three very different doors: a respected psychologist’s home, a socialite’s mansion, and a struggling single father’s run-down apartment. Inside, each gift is perfectly tailored to its recipient- and each will tear apart the life of its intended victim.
Detective Sergant Judith Lee is smart and experienced, but this is no ordinary case. Someone with intimate knowledge of their targets is orchestrating those attacks. Someone who knows exactly how to hurt each victim where they’re most vulnerable. And she’s convinced that, somehow, it connects back to Alexis Turner. As she races to uncover the connection between three seemingly unrelated people, Judith discovers she’s no longer just investigating the game-she’s being forced to play.
Recommeded Reads
Sisters Under Fire
Colin Burgess
Nursing Sisters Margaret Anderson and Vera Torney of the 2/13 Australian General Hospital felt far from heroic as they evacuated Singapore on the converted cargo ship Empire Star in 1942. After Japanese occupation, every nurse without exception had requested to stay and tend to their wounded patients, but instead were ordered to evacuate as part of a hastily contrived and ultimately perilous escape plan.
She last saw its owner, reclusive artist Dorothea Roe, sixteen years ago, during a tragic summer that changed her life for ever. Now, with partner Josh in tow, it’s a chance for a fresh start. But after discovering an old box with her name on it in Dorothea’s abandoned study, Imogen starts to believe the woman was trying to send he
r a secret message. And when rumours begin to swirl that Dorothea was murdered, she starts to suspect that this gift might not be the lifeline she thought it was…
The Storytellers Secret
Sophie Austin
From the stage of the Penny Farthing Theatre, Ava Adams uses hypnotism to draw long- buried memories from the lost and the lonely. Taught by her late mother, Ava once believed in her gift -until heartbreak shattered her confidence.
Damien Carter is running from disaster when he sees Ava’s face on a faded poster. It feels like he’s been waiting for her all his life. But as dark forces conspire to break them, can they reach beyond the prison of their memories to find redempton together?
The Parisian Chapter
Janet Skeslien Charles
It’s been five years since Lily Jacobsen and her best friend Mary Louise arrived in Paris from their small town in Montana. Determined to establish themselves as artists, they shared a tiny apartment. But when Mary Louise moves out, Lily feels alone in the city of light and needs a new way to support herself. She lands a job as a programs manager at the American Library in Paris following in the footsteps of Odile, her beloved French
neighbour in Montana who told her stories of heroic World War 11 librarians when Lilly was growing up.
At work, Lily meets an extraordinary cast of characters. In the library’s attic, Lily discovers a box of archives that may be a link to Odile’s own Parisian chapter.
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