Rosemary's Newsletter
Authors of the Month
Chloe Adams
Chloe is the winner of the 2024 Penguin Literary Prize. She is a journalist and fiction writer and has been published widely by Australian news mastheads and literary journals. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing and a graduate certificate of international and community development.
Chloe has lived in the UK, Timor Leste and Adealaide, and now calls Naarm/Melbourne home.
Alli Sinclair
Alli is a multi award-winning author who spent her early adult years travelling the globe She scaled mountains in Nepa, Argentina, and Peru, rafted the Ganges, and rode a camel in the Sahara. All of these adventures made for fun storytelling and this is when she discovered her love of writing.
Book of the Month
Shift.
Margaret Hickey.
High on a hill above the small Victorian town of Carrabeen, 300 wind turbines constantly spin. Except one is now deadly still – a body hanging from its huge white blade. Senior Sergeants Belinda Burney and Will Lovett are shocked to discover the dead man is Geordie Pritchard, a rich local philanthropist and owner
of the wind energy farm.
Suicide at first seems the likely explanation, until Georgie’s widow Lucinda insists her husband was murdered – and she has the death threats to prove it. Certainly the wind farm has ripped the rural town in two. Some welcome the jobs and prosperity it brings, others are enraged by the loss of farming land. In short, the dead man was both saint and sinner. But who in small community hated him enough to murder?
Recommeded Reads
The Peak.
Sam Guthrie.
Political hatchet man Charlie Westcott will do anything to protect Sebastian, government minister and his best friend since their brutal private school days. Rising to power together through diplomatic postings and the rough and tumble of Australian politics, they are as close as brothers… or so Charlie thinks. Meanwhile, both keep the secret that lies at the very heart of their relationship – a secret that in one way or another will change the world.
Then three words written in Mandarin are handed to Sebastian and he does the unthinkable. As Charlie tries to piece it all together – from their youth spent in Hong Kong to their recent past in Beijing and Wasington – things in the outside world start to fall apart too. Planes can’t land, phone lines go down and the power goes out. Then the secret intelligence service comes knocking. What the hell did Sebastian do?
The Good Losers.
Meg Bignell.
When Callie March pushes her screen-addicted teenage son to join a local rowing club, she is thrust into a world of irrational obsessions, unseemly intrigue, insufferable dickheads.
Callie is torn between enchantment and repulsion-until a trail of corruption and scandal leads her to deep suspicion instead. There’s something fishy in the rowing shed, and she determined to find out what lurks behind the closed doors of this pretentious sports club. In doing so, she will rock the boat. Or better still, capsize it altogether.
Second Chance Family.
Barbara Hannay.
Callie Madden, a grieving widow and single mother of three, is stunned to learn she’s inherited one half of Hawkridge, a beautiful acreage in the Mist Mountains of Far North Queensland.
A potential family scandal surrounds the reasosn for this bequest. Callie is to share the inheritance with Ben Galbraith. Ben plans to return to Scotland. How can they negotiate an entire year of caring for Hawkridge?
