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Author of the Month
Sophie Green
Sophie is an author and publisher who lives in Sydney. She has written several fiction & non fiction books under other names. She fell in love with the Northern Territory the first time she visited & subsequent visits inspired the story in the Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club.
Book of the Month
The Golden Thread.
Tea Cooper
The Golden Thread is set in 1889 in Maitland NSW and Qld Government House Paramatta. Protagonist, 19 year old Constance goes searching for her `missing`grandmother Nell and the search for a golden silk dress, which threatens to expose deep,long held family secrets.
Don’t miss Tea in-conversation on 11 November at the BMI.
Recommended Reads
The Venice Hotel
Tess Woods
Signora Loretta Bianchi, the world famous cook at the Hotel 11 Cuore, is forced to choose between once-in-a-lifetime passion and her devoted husband.
Australian food writer Sophie finds a lot more than Signora Bianchi’s secret recipes to love, but what is Loretta’s charming son Rocco hiding?
Law graduate Elenais sinking just like the endangered city she’s returned home to, and she’ll stop at nothing too be free from her marriage.
Death at the sign of the Rook
Kate Atkinson
The stage is set. The players are ready. By night’s end, a murderer will be revealed.
Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off a bad case of midlife malaise when he is called to a sleepy Yorkshire town, and the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting. But one theft leads to another, including the disappearance of a valuable Turner from Burton Makepeace, home to Lady Milton and her family. Once a magnificent country house, Burton Makepeace has now partially been converted into a hotel, hosting Murder Mystery Weekends…
Witness 8
Steve Cavanagh
Ruby Johnson used to live on Manhattan’s West 74th Street, with her parents. But the family lost everything, including their home, due to her father’s gambling. Now she works on that very street as a maid to some of the wealthy families.
Ruby knows all their precious secrets, so when she witnesses a murder in one of the homes, she sees an opportunity to make some cash and change her mother’s life – and her own!
Ruby knows the victim, and the killer, and so it is that she makes an anonymous call to the police and names the killer, but she’s telling a lie, and, as we eventually find out, she has a very good reason for doing so…
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