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Authors of the Month
Gabriel Bergmoser
Gabriel is an award-winning Melbourne-based author and playwright. He won the prestigious Sir Peter Ustinov Television Sciptwriting Award in 2017 Kenneth Branagh for New Drama Writing and went on to win several awards at the 2017 VDL One Act Play Festival Circuit.
Chrissie Bellbrae
After a lifetime in the city of Melbourne, Chrissie was lured to the beauty of salt water, and acknowledges she lives and writes on the coast of Wadawurrung Country. The Florentine Quilt is her debut novel, inspired by a life-long interest in art, textiles and tales her grandmother’s tales.
Paula Gleeson
Paula writes mysteries and thrillers for all ages, usually with multiple twists and complicated females at the helm. She is an award-winning filmmaker and nominated non-fiction writer.
Each of these authors will be in-conversation at the BMI in September, find out more via our talks webpage or get tickets below
Book of the Month
Secrets of the Starlit Sea
Santa Montefiore.
The moment psychic detective Pixie Tate steps inside the opulent Aldershoff Hotel in Manhattan, one of the last relics of New York’s Gilded Age. She senses instantly that a dark spirit is wreaking havoc within its elegant walls.
Pixie knows that she must use her unique gift to travel back in time in order to discover the secrets of the past, and as she slips back over a hundred years, she’s shocked to find herself in the midst of one of the most famous events in history.
As the stars twinkle overhead, Pixie realises that time is running out. But when she comes face to face with a man she thought she’d lost forever, will she keep her promise to save only the souls she should- or is it too late, and has she already changed the future.
Recommeded Reads
High Rise.
Gabriel Bergmoser.
After a year a searching, rogue ex-cop Jack Carlin has finally found his estranged daughter, Morgan, holed up in the top floor of a rundown grimy high rise building. The trouble is, Jack’s unconventional policing and
information-gathering methods in the past has made him some serious enemies…
The Florentine Quilt
Chrissie Bellbrae.
This is a story of three women, connected by place, birth, the ‘sight’ and the Arthurian legend of Tristan and Isolde. Women who contravened convention for love and suffered for their secrets, woven together as carefully as one might stitch a medieval quilt.
The story goes back and forth between present day and the 1800s with the three female protagonists from those eras connected by the fable of Tristan and Isolde. Through their sometimes difficult emotional journeys and heartbraking sacrifices..
Boney Creek.
Paula Gleeson.
Callie Madden, a grieving widow and single mother of three, is stunned to learn she’s inherited one half of Hawkridge, a beautiful acreage in the Mist Mountains of Far North Queensland.
A potential family scandal surrounds the reasosn for this bequest. Callie is to share the inheritance with Ben Galbraith. Ben plans to return to Scotland. How can they negotiate an entire year of caring for Hawkridge?
