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Author of the Month | Gabriel Bergmoser
Gabriel is a Melbourne based author and playwright. After starting out in the youth theatre scene with his early plays Windmills, Life Without Me and Hometown, Gabriel completed his Masters of Screenwriting at the Victorian College of the Arts.
A film adaptation of The Hunted is currently being developed in a joint production between Stampede Ventures and Vertigo entertainment in Los Angeles.
Books of the Month – Doll’s Eye | Leah Kaminsky & I’ll leave you with This | Kylie Ladd
Doll’s Eye | Leah Kaminsky
Germany, 1933
Anna Winter returns home to find a note from her father, warning her of grave danger. She flees overnight, taking her precious doll collection with her, and sets sail for Australia. She lands a job at the Birdum Hotel and carves a new life, hiding her past from the world – until a chance encounter with an eccentric stranger, Alter Mayseh, changes everything.
Australia, 1938
A yiddish poet fleeing persecution, Alter has seen the writing on the wall for his people, Armed with a letter of introduction from Albert Einstein, he escapes Europe and arrives in Australia in search of a safe place to call home. When fate leads him to Anna, he’s convinced he’s found his future with her. But a disturbing clue to her dark past threatens to unravel the delicate life she has built on top of the secrets left behind.
I’ll Leave You | Kylie Ladd.
Three years after the death of their beloved brother, all Daniel’s sisters have left of him are their memories. They know he’s helped others by donating his organs, but as miracles come true for the recipients, his own family are struggling with their devastating loss.
When Clare suggests that they find the people Daniel’s death saved, her sisters have their doubts. Will meeting them help to bring the sisters back together, or will old tensions and surfacing secrets splinter the fragile family ties forever?
Recommended Reads
The Hidden Book | Kirsty Manning
Europe, 1940s:
Imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, Spanish fighter and photographer Mateo Baca is ordered to process images of the camp and inmates for a handful of photo books being made for presentation to top Nazi figures. Just five books in total,or so the officials think…
Mateo manages to make a secret sixth book and, with the help of a local women, Lena Lang, it remains hidden until the end of the war.
Australia present day:
When thirteen-year-old Hannah Campbell’s Yugoslavian grandfather, Nico Antonov, arrives in Australia to visit his family, one of the gifts he brings with him is an intriguing-looking parcel wrapped in a flour sack, which Roza, Hannah’s mother, quickly hides…
The Last Devil to Die | Richard Osman
It’s rarely a quiet day for the Thursday Murder Club.
Shocking news reaches them – an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.
The gang’s search leads them into the antiques business ,where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers,art forgers, and online fraudsters- as well as heartache close to home – Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and lbrahim have no idea whom to trust.
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