Wake the Dust by 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 […]
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Yesterday the BMI was a-buzz with people streaming in for a book signing with Max Harris who was selling his new book Ballarat The Swinging 60s by Max Harris & Peter Butters. The book was luanched at the Mecure Ballarat on 24 November. The book is jam packed with more than 400 images of this difinative
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June 4 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm $10 Original Twin by Paula Gleeson Two sisters May and June couldn’t be more different. May is quiet, self-conscious withdrawn; June is boisterous, beautiful, magnetic…and missing. It’s been a year since June disappeared, a year of May waiting for her to turn up with an explanation of
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Sanctuary by 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
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Kind of Sort of Maybe… but probably not by Imbi Neeme A charming, nostalgic, quirky, uplifting novel of people young and old finding their tribe, gaining courage to be themselves and perhaps falling in love, too. Kind of Sort of Maybe… but probably not Librarian Phoebe Cotton lives with misophonia. The sound of other people
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Elizabeth Coleman Elizabeth Coleman is a renowned screenwriter who has written on every season of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries. She is also the author of the hit play Secret Bridesmaids’ Business and co-created the much-loved ABC drama Bed of Roses. Her first novel, Losing the Plot, came out through
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Go to the Library webpage to view all New Releases. Our Library Why not become a member Chrismas Membership Voucher Why not support this grand old beauty by giving a Christmas Gift Voucher of a BMI Membership this year. $60 will grant your loved one access to a slice of Ballarat heritage. More
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Rosemary’s Book of the Week Best Wishes by Richard Glover. Do you hate noisy restaurants, pre-ripped jeans and pedestrians who walk five abreast? Do you also have a problem with plastic-wrapped fruit, climate-change deniers and take-away sandwiches priced at $14.95. And, most of all, do you think the world would be a better place if
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Come along and experience our Maker Market & Book Sale just in time for Christmas: Calling for stallholders | Expression of interest > Free entry View our stallholders. Stallholders Book Sale We will also be hosting a book sale in the Library on Saturday 2 & Sunday 3 December. These books have been donated to
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Image: above Clem Onojeghuo Saturday 2 & Sunday 3 December, 10am – 2pm This event is an important fundraiser for the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute. Venue: Library, Ground Floor Book Donations In the lead-up to the Book Sale we are happy to take book donations to assist in raising funds for this grand old beauty. We
2 course dinner & lots
of dancing
