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Author of the Month
Sophie Green
Sophie is an author, publisher and lives in Sydney. When she is not writing novels, she is writing about Australian country music on her website.
Sophie also loves practising yoga, exploring creativity in its many forms, and losing herself in music that tells a great story.
Book of the Month
The Story She Left Behind
Patti Callahan Henry
In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington’s magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, disappears off the coast of South Carolina. Her mysterious departure leaves behind not only a hearbroken family but also the chance of ever translating the sequel to her beloved work, written in an enigmatic language she invented.
In 1952, Clara is an illustrator raising her own daughters, Wynnie,when a stranger from London contacts her claiming to have discovered a dictionary of her mother’s lost language. Clara is skeptical but also hopeful as she crosses the Atlantic with Wynnie, only to arrive during one of London’s most deadly natural disasters – the Great Smog. With asthmatic Wynnie in peril, mother and daughter escape the city and find refuge in the Lake District. It is there that Clara must find the courage to uncover the truth about her mother and the story she left behind.
Recommeded Reads
Red Lake
Jason Summers
Sergeant Harper Quinn has returned to her leepy hometown of Koorinda in search of a quieter life. Until she learns that the town’s once glittering waterpark is being reopened, on the shores of its famous Red Lake: the place her little brother vanished into thin air 30 years ago.
And then Harper receives a call: a body has been found at the park.
Once again, Harper finds her family at the cente of a shocking criminal investigation. This time, she is determined to find her own answers.
But when secrets run this deep, the truth can drag you under…
Later Only Love Remains
Leah Swann
Jack Wolfe, a complicated and difficult old man, retreats to his remote shack in the Otways to grieve his wife’s death in a car crash where he was the driver. Half mad with remorse, and memories of wrongs he has done to others, what he craves more than anything is forgiveness – and solitude.
Instead, he meets Lotus, an exuberant yet lonely young woman who insists on trying to help him, although he’s determined to keep her at bay. He doesn’t want or need anyone. But late one night, when his dog starts howling, Jack discovers a shivering and wet stranger on his property. Is this man dangerous, or someone who simply needs his help? His late wife would have wanted him to show kindness, but he can’t help suspecting the man’s motives. And what should he do about the unwanted friendship from Lotus?
Then another victim is found ……..
The Ballad of Ronan McCoy
Colin Morgan
Brendan’s best friend, his only friend, is Ronan McCoy. He knows things about Brendan that no one else does: about his job washing the cars at Feeney’s Funeral Home, about the loneliness he sometimees feels even when surrounded by hundreds of others at school. But Brendan never told Ronan about the dark feeling that sits at the bottom of his stomach. It never comes when Ronan’s around.
Standing at the school gates on the first day of term, the dark feeling begins to form in Brendan’s stomach. And when Ronan doesn’t turn up, Brendan learns that something terrible happened to his best friend over the summer and he will never be the same again.
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