New Titles and Recommendations February 2025

Mystery 
The Peacock and the Sparrow | I. S. Berry
Mystery 
Beoynd Reasonable Doubt | Robert Dugoini
Mystery 
Killjoy | Ann Cleeves
Mystery 
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy | Ann Cleeves
Mystery 
Tears on Her Grave | DK Hood
Mystery 
36 Hours | Angela Marsons
Mystery
The Hidden Hand | Stella Rimington
Mystery
The Dentist | Tim Sullivan
Mystery
The Cyclist | Tim Sullivan
Mystery
Dead Man's Shoes | Marion Todd
Australian
The spirit Circle | Tara Calaby
Australian
The Inheritance | Kate Horan
Australian
Unfinished Business | Shankari Chandran
Australian
The Last Illusion of Paige White | Vanessa McCausland
Australian
Blood Pact | Fiona McIntosh
Australian
One Dark Night | Hannah Richell
Australian
Gunnawah | Roni Salt
Australian
Three Boys Gone | Mark Smith
Historical
The Mystery of Haverford House | Rachel Burton
Historical
The Storm We Made | Vanessa Chan
Historical
Last Dance in Salzburg | Vivian Conroy
Historical
Courage for the Cabinet Girl | Molly Green
Historical
Mademoiselle Eiffel | Aimie K Runyan
Scandanavian
Locked In | Jussi Adler Olsen
Historical
Scandanavian
The Traitor | Jørn Lier Horst
Scandanavian
Boys Who Hurt | Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Non Fiction
Outrageous Fortunes | Megan Brown & Lucy Sussex
Non Fiction
Cleaved | Jane Cafarella
Non Fiction
Wandering Through Life | Donna Leon
Non Fiction
The Place of Tides | James Rebanks

Rosemary's Newsletter

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…

portrait of author with book
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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