# New Titles and Recommendations March 2024 Source: https://ballaratmi.org.au/library/new-titles-and-recommendations-march-2024/ ## March 2024 ## New Releases ## Rosemary recommends more > ##### Mystery ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/before-the-dawn-ds-butler.jpg) *Before the Dawn | DS Butler* [Reserve](https://ballaratmi.org.au/reserve-a-library-book/) ##### Mystery ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/behind-the-wire-jack-gatland-640x1024.jpg) *Behind the Wire | Jack Gatland* ##### Mystery ![Book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/a-dinner-to-die-for-jack-gatland-640x1024.jpg) *A Dinner to Die For | Jack Gatland* ##### Mystery ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/the-dark-hours-david-j-gatward.jpg) *The Dark Hours | David J Gatward* ##### Mystery *Fair Game | David J Gatward* ##### Mystery ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/the-spy-coast-tess-gerritsen.jpg) *The Spy Coast | Tess Gerritsen* ##### Mystery ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/alibi-lynda-la-plante.jpg) *Alibi | Lynda La Plante* ##### Mystery ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/the-bonnie-dead-andrew-raymond-1.jpg) *The Bonnie Dead | Andrew Raymond* ##### Mystery ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/beneath-dark-waters-karen-rose.jpg) *Beneath Dark Waters | Karen Rose* ##### Mystery ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/random-in-death-jd-robb-674x1024.jpg) *Random in Death | JD Robb* ##### Fantasy ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/the-sinister-booksellers-of-bath-garth-nix.jpg) *The Sinister Booksellers of Bath | Garth Nix* ##### Novel ![Book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mrs-winterbottom-takes-a-gap-year-joanna-nell.jpg) *Mrs Winterbottom takes a Gap Year | Joanna Nell* ##### Novel ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/before-the-swallows-come-back-fiona-curnow.jpg) *Before the Swallows Come Back | Fiona Curnow* ##### Historical ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/wartime-wishes-at-beltchely-park-molly-green-670x1024.jpg) *Wartime Wishes at Bletchley Park | Molly Green* ##### Historical ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/the-chocolate-factory-mary-lou-stephens.jpg) *The Chocolate Factory | Mary-Lou Stephens* ##### Australian ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/No-Comfort-on-a-Chilly-Night_cover-1-664x1024.jpg) *No Comfort on a Chilly Night | Noel Braun* ##### Australian ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/the-drowning-bryan-brown-670x1024.jpg) *The Drowning | Bryan Brown* ##### Australian ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/question-7-richard-flanagan-669x1024.jpg) *Question 7 | Richard Flanagan* ##### Australian ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/kill-your-husbands-jack-heath-670x1024.jpg) *Kill Your Husbands | Jack Heath* ##### Australian ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/kind-of-sort-of-maybe.but-probably-not-imbi-neeme-670x1024.jpg) *Kind of sort of maybe... but probably not | Imbi Neeme* ##### Australian ![bok cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/issi-mac-whitford-roche-1-683x1024.jpg) *Issi Mac | Witford Roche* ##### Romance ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/second-act-danielle-steel.jpg) *Second Act | Danielle Steel* ##### Literature ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/the-roadmap-of-loss-liam-murphy.jpg) *The Roadmap of Loss | Liam Murphy* #### Rosemary's Newsletter ##### Author of the Month **Imbi Neeme** Imbi Neeme is a recovering blogger, ardent novelist and spreadsheet enthusiast. Her manuscript The Spill was awarded the 2019 Penguin Literary Prize. She blogged for many years at Not Drowning, Mothering, which won the 2010 Bloggies Award for best ANZ Weblog. She lives in Footscray on the right side of the Maribyrnong. *Imbi Neeme | Photo: Miles Standish* ##### Book of the Month ***Kind of Sort of Maybe…but probably not*** **by Imbi Neeme.** Librarian Phoebe Cotton lives with misophonia. The sound of other people crunching an apple, slurping their tea or snapping chewing gum fills her with a rage that she buries deep within. Mortified by her ‘Not Quite Right’ brain she hides away inside 6 Salmon Street, the family home that her formidable grand-mother Dorothy has abandoned for a more convivial life at the Western Retreat Retirement Village. But when Phoebe begins receiving mysterious postcards in the mail, she slowly, but surely, finds herself being pulled back out into the world and towards Monty, the sweet postal clerk. Across town,Suze a university student with a high distinction in study avoidance, is clinging to the hope that the neglectful J might actually be her boyfriend. When J’s attention turns to Ky, it sets Suze on a path that leads her to 6 Salmon Street and Phoebe Cotton. Together with Suze and Monty, Phoebe goes on a mission to solve the mystery of the postcards but ends up finding much, much more, including acceptance, strength and love. ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/kind-of-sort-of-maybe.but-probably-not-imbi-neeme-768x1175.jpg) ##### Recommended Reads ***No Comfort on a Chilly Night* | Noel Braun** Felix Schmidt is backpacking on the Camino de Santiago when he meets the love of his life, the beautiful French Pascaline. He brings her back to Australia where he joins a new firm of management consultants. Deeply engrossed in the company’s growth, he neglects Pascaline. She believes his addiction has reduced him as a person, wearies of his obsessive workaholism and returns to France. Felix pines for his lost love, but as the company expands, he advances into management and is totally immersed. Disillusioned the ambition has seduced him to climb a ladder that leads to nowhere, that forces him to inflict pain and make decisions he abhors, he loathes the character he has become. Eventually, he quits his work. Once free of responsibility, he aims to win back Pascaline, but first he must work on himself to restore his former undistorted self. With trepidation he returns to France, anxious about the person he will find in Pascaline. ![book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/No-Comfort-on-a-Chilly-Night_cover-1-768x1184.jpg) ***Issi Mac* | Whitford Roche** Isabella McMillan is young, beautiful, and smart. A much loved daughter with her future mapped out and secure. She knows what is expected of her – Melbourne in 1956 has a box just the right shape for a Chinese-Australian lawyer-to-be. And yet… When she meets a university lecturer names Alexander, he seems to offer her freedom from the claustrophobic privilege of her life and convinces her to come away with him. Only in Oxford, England, is the real man revealed. As Issie grapples with her fading dreams and impetuous choices, she is hurled into a future she could not have imagined and does not wish her parents to glean. And so, to London. There at a run down boarding house, she finds unexpected things: warmth, friendship, the means to support herself – and the strength to not only face her past, but to start again. *Issi Mac | Whitford Roche* ***The Bonnie Dead* | Andrew Raymond** Five years ago, DCI John Lomond led the search for notorious Glasgow child-killer ‘The Sandman’ until personal tragedy forced him off the case. In Lomond’s absence, the killer was never found. Now with nothing but work left in his life, Lomond remains obsessed with the case- despite the nightmares it brings. When a child is abducted in similar Sandman fashion from an affluent Glasgow suburb, Lomond is brought in to find them before it’s too late. But the only forensic evidence belongs to a little girl who was abducted and murdered twenty years ago. ![Book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/the-bonnie-dead-andrew-raymond.jpg) *The Bonnie Dead | Andrew Raymond* **More of Rosemary’s new releases & recommendations.** [February 2024](https://ballaratmi.org.au/library/new-titles-and-recommendations-february-2024/) ## Library events ![BMI Library book sale promotional image with gift-wrapped book](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/square-promo-christmas-26-300x300.jpg) ##### [Book Sale | Reward yourself with some excellent Christmas reading](https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/book-sale-reward-yourself-with-some-excellent-christmas-reading/) December 12 @ 10:00 am - December 13 @ 2:00... ![BMI Library book sale with vinyl records and autumn leaves](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/square-promo-autumn-26-300x300.jpg) ##### [Book Sale | Reward yourself with some excellent Autumn reading](https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/book-sale-reward-yourself-with-some-excellent-autumn-reading/) 01/05/2027 @ 10:00 am - 02/05/2027 @ 2:00 pm Free... ![Ross McMullin author of The Light on the Hill book](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/square-promo-tt-ross-mcmullin-300x300.jpg) ##### [Twilight Talks: Season 2, The Light on the Hill: An Updated History of the Australian Labor Party.](https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/twilight-talks-season-2-the-light-on-the-hill-an-updated-history-of-the-australian-labor-party/) October 28 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm $9 –... ![Kerri Rogan author event promoting Witchy Sister book](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/sp-promo-talks-kerri-rogan-v2-1-300x300.webp) ##### [In Conversation with Kerri Rogan](https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/in-conversation-with-kerri-rogan-november/) November 4 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm $11.00 Humffray... ## Library news ![Monica McInerney author photo with When Sullivan Met Lola book cover](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/libary-bow-monica-mcinerney-when-sullivan-met-lola-240x300.jpg) ##### [Rosemary’s Book of the Week | When Sullivan Met Lola by Monica McInerney](https://ballaratmi.org.au/rosemarys-book-of-the-week-when-sullivan-met-lola-by-monica-mcinerney/) When Sullivan Met Lola Monica McInerney Don’t miss Monica who... ![Michael Robotham Tell Me Something True book cover BMI Library](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/libary-bow-michael-robotham-tell-me-something-true-240x300.jpg) ##### [Rosemary’s Book of the Week | Tell Me Something True by Michael Robotham](https://ballaratmi.org.au/rosemarys-book-of-the-week-tell-me-something-true-by-michael-robotham/) Tell Me Something True Michael Robotham Don’t miss Michael who... ![Sally Mackinnon promotes her fashion book Styled](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/libary-bow-sally-mackinnon-styled-240x300.jpg) ##### [Rosemary’s Book of the Week | Styled by Sally Mackinnon](https://ballaratmi.org.au/rosemarys-book-of-the-week-styled-by-sally-mackinnon/) Styled Sally Mackinnon Don’t miss Sally who will be talking... **Stay informed of our new releases** Subscribe to our Newsletter [subscribe newsletter >](https://ballaratmi.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=dd70ef083716c1e78fa7f77de&id=e81f7ed3c4#) ## Library Back to our Library homepage [Library](https://ballaratmi.org.au/library/) ## Tours The BMI can provide public tours of the building. 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