Rosemary's Newsletter
Author of the Month
Tricia Stringer
Tricia lives in the Copper Coast region of South Australia with her husband and their assorted animals. Tricia enjoys a varity of crafts and sipping the odd glass of wine when she is not tangling with computers, reading a book or walking on the beach.
Book of the Month
The Underworld
Sofie Laguna
Martha Mullins is a misfit. Her mother is glamorous, aloof and judgemental. Her father, mostly absent. Academic and shy, Martha finds herself fascinated by the underworld, a place she learns about in Roman mythology classes at school. To Martha, the underworld and its divine inhabitants provide a place of refuge, escape, imagination and desire.
But Martha also finds joy in friendship, Connection. Intimacy. It’s Martha’s band of friends who show her the value in spontaneity, fun, laughter. Until it goes wrong.
Recommeded Reads
The Sunbaker
P. A. Thomas
When overworked forensic pathologist Nicola Fox arrives for a long overdue break at her holiday house in Brunswick Heads, on the NSW north coast, she’s shocked to discover someone sunbaking on one of the sun lounges in her backyard. And that the sunbaker has been dead for some time.
Rumours soon emerge that the sunbaker took more than a few dark secrets to his grave, secrets many people-and especially the police were keen to bury. When the arse-covering and finger-pointing begin in earnest, Nicola finds herself a suspect.
New to town, she only knows one person who might be able to save her: Jack Harris, a journalist at the local newspaper, The Beacon. When he begins investigating, the police organised crime unit arrives, and soon they are threatening both him and Nicola, leaving Jack to wonder if it was the police themselves who had committed the crime.
Can Jack uncover who really killed the sunbaker, and why the body was left in the backyard of a forensic pathologist, before the escalating threats to his own well being become more than just threats?
The American Boys
Olivia Spooner
Wellington 1942, While Lorna’s brothers are overseas fighting for their lives, war rages in the Pacific. As the threat of a Japanese attack on New Zealand seems increasingly real 20,000 US Marines arrive to keep the country safe.
The Americans find their new post stange and unwelcoming, but even as cultures clash, romance blooms. After Lorna is persuaded to go on a double date, she befriends Stan a Marine from Chicago.
Handsome and kind, Stan is the golden boy of his famiy. When he is posted to Guadalcanal, his wayward younger brother, Alfie, joins the forces staioned in Wellington.
At first, Lorna finds Alfie infuriating – the opposite of Stan – but as he receives his orders to join the fight, she suddenly can’t stand the thought of losing him.
The Road Trip
Tricia Stringer
Two lots of caravanners heading across the country and what is meant to be the trip of a lifetime, especially as it is Sharons 60th Birthday. But emotions are shown early when Sharon is not in fact happy about this trip and more so when she finds out who is on this trip …
