Book of the Week

Edenhope Louise Le Nay. ‘A moving story about one woman’s unconditional love, the kindness of strangers, and what’s right as well as what’s wrong with the way we live now.’ Marnie is sixty-three and downwardly mobile. Her middle-class marriage is long gone, her only child more or less estranged. She’s living in a granny flat […]

The Homestead in the Eucalypts Léonie Kelsall. Sometimes finding the way forward means retracing our past. When student doctor Taylor Lawrence’s city life is turned upside down, she seeks sanctuary on her grandparents’ farm in the South Australian countryside. During the lonely nights, she fantasises of a time long-gone; of Anna, who, rising at dawn

The Detective Up Late Adrian McKinty. New York Times bestselling author of  The Chain and The Island  A Sean Duffy Novel New Year’s Eve 1989, Northern Ireland is ready to put the bloody decade behind them Detective Inspector Sean Duffy is among them.  Duffy is retiring and moving his family to Scotland due to the

Why Do Horses Run  Cameron Stewart. Vivid and compelling – Inga Simpson Tender and humane, a haunting debut – Tim Winton Ingvar has been walking for three years.  He doesn’t speak, avoids towns wherever he can and while he isn’t sure why he is walking, he knows that he must keep going.  If he needs to communicate,

The Honeymoon Affair Sheila O’Flangan. Her heart has already been broken. What does she have to lose. Izzy is in the Caribbean on the honeymoon- that isn’t after her fiance broke her heart.  She’s not looking for someone new.  But when she meets Charles Miller, a successful writer holidaying alone, the electricity is undeniable.  And

Bone Lands Pip Fioretti. One -man Police Station. Three murders. A past that will not stay burried. 1911 On a winter’s night in arid New South Wales wool country, mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins discovers the bodies of three young people. They are scions of the  richest family in the district, savagely murdered on a road

Original Twin Paula Gleeson. A Thriller. Twin sisters May and June couldn’t be more different. May is quiet, self-conscious, withdrawn; June is boisterous, beautiful, magnetic and missing. It’s been a year since June disappeared, a year of May waiting for her to turn up with an explanation of where she’s been and why she left.

Red Gifts in the Garden of Stones Pam Swanborough. A tale of grief and ghosts and at least one small dog. Suspiciously long-lived matriarch Lizzie Coombe expects her one hundredth birthday to be memorable, But what comes after will never be forgotten by anyone in this close-knit Welsh community. Lizzie and her daughter Myfanway only

Daddy’s Girl Josephine Cox. When heartbroken Sarah Quinn is left to care for her father and siblings after her mother dies, it’s hard to watch their loving dad, Fred, drift into drink and despair. With money tight, Sarah is determined to keep the family together. But they receive a shock when Fred Quinn announces he is