New Titles and Recommendations November 2024

Mystery 
Leave No Trace | D S Butler
Mystery 
Witness 8 | Steve Cavanagh
Mystery 
Count Their Graves | Jennifer Chase
Mystery 
Dead Ends | Jeffery Deaver
Mystery 
The Dead Beneath Us | Matthew J Evans
Mystery 
End of Story | A.J. Finn
Mystery
Her Last Walk Home | Patricia Gibney
Mystery
One of Us is Dead | Peter James
Mystery
The Devil You Know | Neil Lancaster
Mystery
The Black Loch | Peter May
Mystery
Death in the Air | Ram Murali
Mystery
The Great Hippopotamus Hotel | Alexander McCall-Smith
Mystery
Such Charming Liars | Karen M McManus
Mystery
Blood Ties | Jo Nesbo
Mystery
We Solve Murders | Richard Osman
Mystery
Burn it all Down | TG Reid
Mystery
Why She Died | JG Roberts
Mystery
Buried Too Deep | Karen Rose
Australian
The Masterpiece | Belinda Alexandra
Australian
The Seachangers | Meredith Appleyard
Australian
The Golden Thread | Tea Cooper
Australian
The Valley | Chris Hammer
Australian
The Girls from Fitzroy | Jennie Jones
Australian
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife | Anna Johnston
Australian
Cherrywood | Jock Serong
Australian
The Paris Gown | Christine Wells
Australian
Opal | Patricia Wolf
Historical
Swift River | Essie Chambers
Historical
In the Margins | Gail Holmes
Historical
The Hidden Girl | Lucinda Riley
Historical
The Wartime Book Club | Kate Thompson
Novel
Righteous Kill | Ted Lapkin
Novel
The Venice Hotel | Tess Woods
Romance
Lies and Weddings | Kevin Kwan
Romance
The Ball at Versailles | Danielle Steel
Literature
Daath at the sign of the Rook | Kate Atkinson
Literature
The Book of Fire | Christy Lefteri
Non Fiction
Guy Gaunt: The Boy From Ballarat Who Talked America Into The Great War | Anthony Delano
Non Fiction
The Great Aussie Road Trip | Heather Ewart

Rosemary's Newsletter

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.

Author of the Month | Sophie Green
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. 

The Golden Thread | Tea Cooper
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.

 

The Venice Hotel | Tess Woods
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…

Daath at the sign of the Rook | Kate Atkinson
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…

Witness 8 | Steve Cavanagh

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