Newsletter – February 2023
In this issue learn about: Library New Releases & Recommended Reads | BMI Art Workshops & Events | Twilight Talks | New Curator | BMI Tours | Our Retailers
Uncover the BMI’s best secrets
Katrina Hill (BMI Arts & Events Officer) who, in conjunction with Marilyn Furness (BMI Volunteer Coordinator) lead our team of volunteer tour guides spoke with Edwina Williams, Ballarat Times last week, if you would like to see the full article go to the Tuesday, January 17th, issue of the Ballarat Times, Times News Group We …
Book Sale | Madonna’s Children’s Books
Thank you to everyone participated in our December Book Sale. From those who donated valued and loved books to assist us in raising funds over the weekend 17 & 18 December and those volunteers who worked long hours sorting and assisting with the sale and pack up, we treasure you. Out of our donated books …
Rosemary’s Book of the Week | 19 December 2022
Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths Rosemary’s Book of the Week Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths (Elly Griffiths) DS Cassie Fitzherbert has a secret-but it’s one she’s deleted from her memory. In the 1990s when she was at school, she and her friends killed a fellow pupil. Many years later, Cassie is happily married …
Rosemary’s Book of the Week | 5 December 2022
One Woman’s War by Christine Wells Victoire “Paddy’’ Bennett walks into the Admiralty’s Room 39, home to the Naval Intelligence Division, expecting nothing more than a secretarial position to the charismatic Commander Ian Fleming. But soon her job is so much more, and when Fleming proposes a daring plot to deceive the Germans about Allied …
Rosemary’s Book of the Week | 28 November 2022
Day’s End by Garry Disher HIRSCH’s rural beats wide. Daybreak today’s end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets small towns and isolated properties, from unlicensed driving to arson. In the time of the virus, Hirsch is seeing stresses heightened and social divisions cracking wide open. His own tolerance under strain; people getting close …
Rosemary’s Book of the Week | 21 November 2022
Forever Home by Graham Norton Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small Irish town, her only son now grown. A second chance at love with the older Declan brings her unexpected connection and belonging, but sparks local speculation: what does a woman like her see in a man like him? What happened to …
Newsletter – November/December 2022
In this issue learn about: Library News | Author Talks | Vintage & Collectables | BMI Events | Twilight Talks | Book Sale | Maker Market | Christmas Operating Hours
Rosemary’s Book of the Week | 24 October 2022
All The Broken Places by John Boyne Sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Ninety-one-year old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Germany over seventy years before. Then …
Rosemary’s Book of the Week | 17 October 2022
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious …