Rosemary's Newsletter
Author of the Month
Shelley Burr
Shelley grew up on Newcastle’s beaches and her grand parents’ property in Glenrowan, and on the road between the two. When not writing, Shelley is working to establish a small permaculture farm and is studying agriculture
at the University of New England, with a focus on soil science.
Don’t miss Shelley in-conversation at the library on Tuesday 29t April. She will be in conversation author Paula Gleeson.
Book of the Month
Vanish.
Shelley Burr.
Lane Holland’s crime-solving career ended the day he went to prison. With his parole hearing approaching, he faces the grim reality that an ex-cop can never work as a private eye. Yet one unsolved case continues to haunt the disappearance of Matilda Carver two decades ago.
Never one to follow the rules, Lane finds a lead – a mysterious farm community led by the enigmatic Samuel Karpathy. His farm attracts lost souls. People who want a more meaningful life. People who are hiding from their pasts. People with nowhere else to go.
But those who go to the farm seem to vanish without a trace.
Recommended Reads
The Florentine Quilt
Chrissie Bellrae.
This is a beautifully written tale woven over multiple timelines connecting three women and a medieval quilt. The woman are also connected in an ancient tale of forbidden love.
Australia 2024- upcycle boutique owner and textile conservator Theodora Harris is still grieving her grandmother’s death when she finds herself accepted at the OPD (The Opificio) in Florence, Italy on an opportunity to work on restoring a fourteenth-century quilt.
1896 – Herbal healer Amelia Treloar finally leaves England to join her husband who left Australia to search for gold. Amelia carries a secret.
1875 – Disgraced Florence Trevelyn is exiled from Queen Victoria’s court for falling in love.
Joan Lindsay.
Brenda Niall.
Joan Lindsay, wife of painter, art entrepreneur and National Gallery of Victoria director Daryl Lindsay, sacrificed her own artistic talent in
deference to her husband. She gave up painting, wrote little and played the charming hostess to the cultural elite of the day at the Lindsay country house on the Morning Peninsula – giving no indication of the literary brilliance that would emerge late in her life. There were clues, though,
as Brenda Niall reveals in this fascinating biography, Joan’s unconventional attitude towards time, her deep reverence for the Australian landscape and a secret personal loss hint at the mystical centre of her masterpiec
We All Live Here.
Jojo Moyes.
Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in free fall and her love life is … complicated. So when her real dad – a man she has barley seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago- suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw…
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