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Author of the Month
Vanessa McCausland
Vanessa studied English and Australian literature at The University of Sydney. She has worked as a journalist for 17 years as a news and medical reporter for The Daily Telegraph and entertainment reporter for mX Newspaper.
Her work has appeared in news.com.au, Mamamia, whimn.com.au and she’s currently a weekend editor at kidspot.com.au. She lives in Sydney’s northern beaches.

Book of the Month
Outrageous Frotunes.
Megan Brown & Lucy Sussex.
When Mary Fortune arrived in Melbourne with her infant son in 1855, she was
determined to reinvent herself. The Victorian goldfields were just the place.
After a time selling sly-grog and a bigamous marriage to a policeman, Mary became a pioneering journalist and author.
In Outrageous Fortunes, Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex retrieve Fortune’s astonishing career and discover an equally absorbing story in her youngest son, George. While Mary was writing crime, George was committing it. Convicted of theft and bank robbery, he spent years in some of the colony’s most brutal prisons. In their intertwined stories, crime fiction meets true crime, and Melbourne’s literary bohemia consorts with the criminal underworld.
Don’t miss Megan & Lucy in conversation with Meg Tasker on 25 February…


Recommended Reads
Cleaved.
Jane Cafarella.
Cleaved is the story of my sister Juliana and me, foot soldiers in the family war, each cleaved to a different parent from birth and of the shocking betrayal that blew me and my mother apart from the rest of the family for decades.
It’s also the story resilience, a unique account of growing up with Milroy’s Disease a rare genetic form at the progressive and incurable swelling disease that meant my right leg was a perfectly proportioned bigger version of my left.
Jane will be in-converation at the BMI on 18 February…


Three Boys Gone.
Mark Smith.
Grace Disher is about to face every teacher’s worst nightmare.
Three students are going to die.
On a high school camping trip, three boys slip away for an ocean swim. By the time Grace catches up, the perilous surf conditions are overwhelming the teenagers. If she goes in, she will die trying to save them.
Should she have given her life?
The question haunts Grace as investigations begin and her decision not to attempt a rescue comes under scrutiny. Hounded by conflicted staff, grieving parents and relentless media- all dissecting her actions, all looking for someone to blame- Grace’s safety is compromised and she must be careful who she trusts.
And she’s not the only one with a secret.

Courage For The Cabinet Girl.
Molly Green.
Churchill’s Cabinet War Rooms are full of secrets…
June 1941. Britain is in the throes of war, but Katherine Valentine feels sidelined.
Employed as a shorthand-typist in the War Office, she is transferred to the basement below- having had no idea that this dark, airless,underground maze, home of the top-secret Cabinet War Rooms, even existed, let alone what her work will entail.
Unexpected staff shortages present an opportunity to work directly for Winston Churchill himself, and Katie jumps at the chance—

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