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Sanctuary Garry Disher. Grace is a master thief, specialising in valuable stamps, watches and jewellery. She never stays long in one place, so when she’s recognised at a Brisbane stamp expo, she must go on the run again.  But she’d like a shot at a normal life, and settles in the Adelaide Hills, where she

Has Anyone Seen Charoltte Salter?  Nicci French. 1990When beautiful and vivacious Charlotte Salter fails to turn up to her husband Alec’s fiftieth birthday party, her children are worried, but Alec is not. As the days pass, Etty, Niall, Paul and Ollie all struggle to come to terms with theirmother’s disappearance. How can anyone just vanish without

Wake the Dust  Rita McInnes. Jane Harper (The Dry) meets Nick Cave in backroad noir and beyond. When burnt-out Aussie nurse and wannabe writer, Ella, flees her suffocating life in Melbourne for a housesitting assignment on a remote rural property, she is thrust into a brutal and unfamiliar landscape. Her budding friendship with Tom from

Sisterhood Cathy Kelly. She always looks out for other people.  Even at her own birthday party, all she does is worry whether everybody else is having a good time. Then a terrible secret upends the celebrations.  And she decides to do the one thing that nobody ever expects: something for herself. But to finally put

Rosemary’s Book of the Week The Women by Kristin Hannah  When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances ‘ Frankie’ McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California’s idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the

Rosemary’s Book of the Week No Comfort on a Chilly Night by Noel Braun Felix Schmidt is backpacking on the Camino de Santiago when he meets the love of his life, the beautiful French Pascaline. He brings her back to Australia where he joins a new firm of management consultants. Deeply engrossed in he company’s growth, he neglects