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Author of the Month
Mark Smith
Mark Smith is the author of five novels: Three Boys Gone, The Road To Winter, Wilder Country, Land Of Fences and If Not Us. The Road To Winter is a popular text on school lists around the country. He is also an award-winning writer of short fiction and has curated two anthologies: Minds Went Walking, Paul Kelly’s Songs Reimagined and Into Your Arms, Nick Cave’s Songs Reimagined.
Don’t miss Mark in-conversation at the library on 1st April. He will be in conversation with ABC Journalis Gavin McGrath
Book of the Month
Three Boys Gone.
Mark Smith.
Grace Disher is about to face every teacher’s worst nightmare. Three of her students are going to die.
On a high school camping trip, three boys slip away from 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.
Recommended Reads
Dancers on the Sea: Stories from Atauro Island, Timor-Leste 1994 - 2002
Gabrielle Samson.
During a period when East Timor was occupied by a harsh Indonesian military regime and a fierce resistance movement challenged it, Gabrielle an Australian woman working at an Indonesian university was asked by a Timorese village leader to help establish a kindergarten for the community.
Supported by the university, Gabrielle agreed to spend six months, on the remote and poor island. It didn’t take long for Gabrielle to fall in love with the island and its people.
Wild Dark Shore.
Charlotte McConaghy.
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants.
A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we take to protect the people we love.
Charlote will be in-conversation at the BMI on Monday 24 March
The Bad Bridesmaid.
Rachael Johns.
When serial dater Winifred Darling (Fred) is asked to be the maid of honour at her mother’s sixth wedding, she’s determined to do everything she can to stop it.
On arrival at the island wedding destination, Fred discovers that the groom’s hot muso son, Leo, is just as set against the wedding as she is. Together, they hatch a plan to stop their parents from making what they believe will be a catastrophic, mistake.
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