Read & Connect Book Group Kits
If you are not a member of a book group but would like to read one of these titles many of them are available in the general library collection; please go to the library catalogue to search and place your reserve.
The 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom
The 2 ½ Pillars of WisdomAlexander McCall Smith
The 2 ½ Pillars of Wisdom is the The Von Iglefield Tril...
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After This
After ThisAlice McDermott
Alice McDermott's powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family ...
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The alphabet of light and dark
The alphabet of light and darkDanielle Wood (Australian Author)
Melding personal, family and colonial h...
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An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England
An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New EnglandBrock Clarke
Sam never intended to torch an America...
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Asta's Book
Asta's BookBarbara Vine
It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark...
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Autumn Laing
Autumn LaingAlex Miller
Australian Author
Autumn Laing has long outlived the legendary cir...
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Barbed Wire and Roses
Barbed Wire and RosesPeter Yeldham
The First World War, everyone said in 1914, would be over by Christm...
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Blackberry Wine
Blackberry WineJoanne Harris
Jay Mackintosh is trapped by memory in the old familiar landscape of his ...
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Blossoms and Shadows
Blossoms and ShadowsLian Hearn (Australian Author)
This is the story of the birth of modern Japan, told...
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The Book Thief
The Book ThiefMarkus Zusak (Australian Author)
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. Liesel Meminger and her younge...
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The book of Emmett
The Book of EmmettDeborah Forster (Australian Author)
Random House
Emmett Brown is as dark...
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Boy on a wire
Boy on a WireJon Doust (Australian Author)
Fremantle Press
Sent to boarding school at a yo...
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The bread with seven crusts
The bread with seven crustsSusan Temby (Australian Author)
In the autumn of 1943 Giuseppe Lazaro, an It...
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Brighton Rock
Brighton RockGraham Green
Gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-...
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The Broken Shore
The Broken ShorePeter Temple
Australian Author
Before Rai Sarris, Cashin was different. He...
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Charlotte Gray
Charlotte GraySebastian Faulks
Set during the Second World War, it deals with themes of memory and loss...
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The Color of Water
The Color of WaterJames McBride
Biography
James McBride grew up one of twelve siblings in ...
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Cooking the Books
Cooking the BooksKerry Greenwood
Australian Author
Corinna Chapman, talented baker and rel...
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Dark Matter
Dark MatterJuli Zeh
Random House
A startling philosophical thriller from an immensely gift...
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Diamond Dove
Diamond DoveAdrian Hyland
Australian Author
Something has drawn Emily Tempest back to Cent...
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Digging to America
Digging to AmericaAnne Tyler
Maryam Yazdan has accompanied her son, Sami, and daughter-in-law, Ziba, to...
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The Distant Hours
The Distant HoursKate Morton (Australian Author)
Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, bu...
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The dressmaker.
The dressmakerRosalie Ham (Australian Author)
After twenty years away, Myrtle Dunnage returns to Dungat...
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Elegance Of The Hedgehog
Elegance Of The HedgehogMuriel Barbery
Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, h...
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Figurehead
FigureheadPatrick Allington (Australian Author)
Black Inc. Publishing
What if you saved a ...
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Fog Garden
Fog GardenMarion Halligan (Australian Author)
Clare is a woman of a certain age whose much-loved husban...
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A Fortunate Life
A Fortunate LifeA. B. Facey (Australian Author)
Non-Fiction
Born in 1894, Facey lived the ...
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The Hand that First Held Mine
The Hand that First Held MineMaggie O'Farrell
Headline Fiction
A gorgeously written story ...
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House Rules
House RulesJodi Piccoult
When a teenage boy with Asperger's is arrested for murder, his family face a...
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The Human Stain
The Human StainPhilip Roth
Coleman Silk has a secret. But it's not the secret of his affair, at seven...
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The Idea of Perfection
The Idea of PerfectionKate Grenville (Australian Author)
"An arch is two weaknesses which together make...
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In the Kitchen
In the KitchenMonica Ali
In The Kitchen is Monica Ali's stunning follow up to Brick Lane. It opens with a...
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
In Other Rooms, Other WondersDaniyal Mueenuddin
The linked stories in In Other Rooms, Other Wonders illumin...
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Jasper Jones
Jasper JonesCraig Silvey (Australian Author)
Allen & Unwin
Late on a hot summer night ...
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Lake of Dreams
Lake of DreamsKim Edwards
At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home to upstate New York ...
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The lotus eaters
The lotus eatersTatjana Soli
As the fall of Saigon begins in 1975, two lovers make their way through th...
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Maisie Dobbs
Maisie DobbsJacqueline Winspear
Maisie Dobbs, Psychologist and Investigator, began her working life at ...
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The Lost Mona Lisa
The Lost Mona LisaR. A. Scotti
Non-Fiction
Late on the afternoon of Sunday, August 20 1911...
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The News Where You Are
The News Where You AreCatherine O'Flynn
Penguin Books
Set in Birmingham, The News Where Yo...
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Nowhere in Africa
Nowhere in Africa : an autobiographical novelStefanie Zweig
Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary tale...
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North & South
North & SouthElizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience...
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One Good Turn
One Good Turn : A jolly murder mysteryKate Atkinson
It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People ...
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Our Man in Havana
Our Man in HavanaGraham Greene
The novel is set in Cuba during the regime of Fulgencio Batista (which w...
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The painted veil
The painted veilW. Somerset Maugham
She did not know what to say. She was undecided whether indignantly...
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A Passage to India
A Passage to IndiaE. M. Forster
When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian tow...
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The Postmistress
The PostmistressSarah Blake
It is 1940 and half the world is living through the horror of the Second ...
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Reading by Moonlight
Reading by Moonlight : How Books Saved a LifeBrenda Walker
Non Fiction
The first time Brenda W...
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Snow Flower and the Secret FanLisa See
An old woman tells of her relationship with her 'old-same', thei...
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The Stonecutter
The StonecutterCamilla Lackberg
HarperCollins
The remote resort of Fjällbacka has seen its...
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The Temptress
The TemptressPaul Spicer
Non Fiction
In Kenya's 'Happy Valley' in the years spanning the 1...
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The tenant of Wildfell HallAnne Bronte
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid SunsKhaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set a...
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Valeria's Last Stand
Valeria's Last StandMarc Fitten
Bloomsbury (Allen & Unwin)
A comic romance novel celeb...
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Wait for me! : memoirs of the youngest Mitford sister
Wait for me! : memoirs of the youngest Mitford sisterDeborah Devonshire.
At the age of ninety, Debo (as...
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
We Need to Talk About KevinLionel Shriver
Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seve...
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The White Queen
The White QueenPhillipa Gregory
Presenting a new series set amid the deadly feuds in England known as the ...
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Worse Things Happen at Sea
Worse Things Happen at SeaWilliam McInnes & Sarah Watt
Australian Authors
Biography ...
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Year of Wonders
Year of WondersGeraldine Brooks (Australian Author)
A young woman′s struggle to save her family and her...
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