Summer Reads for youThank you for your dedication to our monthly newsletters. The team love helping you find your next great read and we are excited for 2024. In this month's newsletter we are recommending a range of great new books including The Drowning by Bryan Brown, I'm Liz Hayes by Liz Hayes and Good Life Growing by Hannah Moloney.
We also have plenty more recommendations on our Book lists via our website. If you read any of our recommendations, be sure to let us know your thoughts in our Facebook group In a Nook with a Book. In February 2024 we will be celebrating Library Lovers Day with popular Australian author Rachael Johns. Rachael will be chatting about her new novel The Other Bridget which is set around a library and begins with Library Lovers Day. Book sales and signings
will be available on the day. This is a free event - but bookings are essential. The Read Next team would like to wish all of our readers the very best over the festive season. Happy reading! PS. If you love reading these newsletters, please share with your friends.
Tania Blanchard and Darry FraserIn our final Book Matters episode for 2023 we chat to two Australian historical fiction writers. Janine speaks with Tania Blanchard about her new novel A
Woman of Courage which takes us back to the early suffragette days. Then Kate chats to Darry Fraser about her latest novel The Milliner of Bendigo, an exciting and twisty adventure set in Bendigo and the mighty Murray River.
The Milliner of Bendigo
by Darry FraserEvie Emerson has worked hard to build a fashionable clientele for her hats. But when an ex-paramour employs underhanded tactics after his attempt to coerce an engagement fails, Evie's reputation is in tatters. Evie's life is then thrown into further turmoil when the disappearance of her sister takes her to Cobram.
Reporter Fitzmorgan O'Shea has troubles of his own uncovering police corruption. Fitz's problems collide with Evie's when his research exposes malicious intimidation local landholders.
Kill Your Husbands
by Jack HeathThree couples travel to the mountains for an unplugged weekend of drinking and bushwalking. On the first night, the topic of partner-swapping comes up.
Not everyone is keen, but an agreement is made. The lights will be turned out. The men will go into separate bedrooms and each woman will pick a bedroom. No one will know who they've slept with - though each guest is privately sure that they will be able to tell.
But when the lights come back on, someone is missing and a body turns up.
They have no way of contacting the police. And the killer is just getting started.
I'm Liz Hayes by Liz HayesLiz Hayes has graced our television screens for more than four decades. For over 25 years Australians have watched her investigative journalism on 60 Minutes. She has shared the stories of celebrities, politicians
and heroes across the globe, but when tragedy struck her own family, Liz discovered that the hardest story to tell is your own. I'm Liz Hayes, is a warm and authentic memoir that takes us back to when Beth Ryan became journalist Liz Hayes.
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The Drowning
by Bryan BrownThe body of a teenage boy is found on the beach of a New South Wales town. David went for an evening swim and got into trouble . . . at least, that's what it looks like.
Three weeks before, a young backpacker, didn't turn up for her shift at the local cafe. Benny, the owner, isn't worried. It happens - backpackers are always on the move.
One of the locals, Adrian, has been a help to Benny. He's found him a nice little sideline, although not exactly legal...
Mrs Winterbottom Takes A Gap Year by Joanna NellAlan and Heather have finally decided to retire after working together for forty years. Heather dreams of exploring the Greek Islands and escaping the shackles of her routine life. Alan dreams of growing his own
vegetables.
When things come to a head at a family lunch, Heather announces that she is taking a year off from her old life, from her marriage - from Alan. Alone in beautiful Greece, Heather embarks on her very own odyssey - complete with unforgettable experiences, pitfalls and temptations. But could what's waiting for her back in Netherwood be Heather's biggest
adventure yet?
Bright Shining by Julia BairdIf karma is getting what you deserve, then grace is the opposite: forgiving the unforgivable, favouring the undeserving, loving the unlovable. But we live in an era when grace is an increasingly rare currency. The silos in which we consume information dot the media landscape, and our
growing distrust of the media, politicians and public figures has choked our ability to forgive one another. So how do we recognise grace even in the darkest of times?
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Good Life Growing
by Hannah MoloneyA bountiful guide from Gardening Australia presenter and The Good Life author Hannah Moloney on how to grow fruit and vegetables anywhere in Australia.
Good Life Growing provides the inspiration on how to grow your own fruit and veg in any Australian climate. This guide is packed with practical solutions for all conditions and every gardener. Whether you're getting started with a pot or developing a plot, you'll find everything you need to hone your skills and have good, fresh food all year round.
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I Don't
by Clementine FordIn her most controversial book to date, Clementine Ford exposes the lies used to sell marriage to women keep them in service to men and male power. I Don't presents an inarguable case against marriage for modern women. With the incisive attention to detail that has characterised her work, Ford examines a topics including the patriarchal history of marriage; the insidious marketing campaign pop culture has conducted in marriage's favour; the illusion of feminist 'choice' in regard to taking men's names; the physical and social cost that comes with motherhood; and what a different kind of world could look like for women who were allowed to truly be free.
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