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Author of the Month
Rozzi Bazzani
Rozzi is an award winning author who has written fiction and non fiction, scripts,libretti and songs for theatre including two stage musicals together with a wide range of articles about music, theatre and performance for publication. She has been a regular contributor to the Arts pages of the highest circulation newspaper in Australia.
Rozzi and Judith Masters will be in-conversation at the BMI in October, find out more via our talks webpage or get tickets below
Book of the Month
The Last Lighthouse Keeper
John Cook with Jon Bauer.
In Tasmania, John Cook is known as ‘The Keeper of the Flame’. As one of Australia’s longest-serving lighthouse keepers, John spent 26 years tending Tasmania’s well-known kerosene ‘lights’ at Tasman Island, Maatsuyker Island and Bruny Island.
Evocatively told, The Last Lighthouse Keeper is a love story between a man and a dying way of life as well as a celebration of wilderness and solitude.
Recommeded Reads
The Midnight Secret.
Karen Swan.
Jane is married to the most handsome man on the isle of St Kilda – but he’s a bully. She inherited her mother’s gift of second sight, but only ever forsees her fellow islander’s deaths.
When death strikes at the heart of Jayne’s home, her marriage goes from bad to worse and she finds an unlikely friend. Glimmers of happiness tantalize her, though there’s no possibility of anything more.
But as the day draws near, tensions on the island rise. Secrets are being forced to the surface, passions and enmities erupting with equal violence. A man is killed, as Jayne knew he would be, and her
closest friends Effie, Mhairi and Flora are each
implicated…
The Liar I Married.
D. K. Hood.
When I met my husband John for the first time, he swept me off my feet. Now I lie in a hospital bed recovering from a car crash, and John refuses to tell me what happened.
In a marriage full of secrets,there are always two sides to the story. But who is the liar and who is telling the truth?
Tenderfoot.
Toni Jordan.
Brisbane, 1975: Andie Tanner’s world is small ut whole. Her mum is complicated, but she adores her dad and the kennel of racing grey hounds that live under their house.
Andie is a serious girl with plans: finish school with her friends, then apprentice to her father until she can become a greyhound trainer with dogs of her very own.
But real life rarely goes to plan, and the world is bigger and more complex than Andie could imagine. When she loses everything she cares about-her family, her friends, the dogs- it’s up to Andie to reclaim her future. She willl need all her wits to survive this new reality of secrets and half-truths, addictions and crime.
