Discussion Group 2012

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Book Discussion Group
Wednesday Programme 2012
The Manly Library Book Discussion Group meets
on the 2nd Wednesday of each month
at 6pm in the Manly Library Meeting Room
All are welcome - No Bookings Required
March 14 Young Writers: Australian Vogel’s literary awards for
writers under 35
April 11 War Mongers
May 9 Ancient Worlds
June 13 Best of British
July11 Don’t judge a book by its movie
August 8 Dagger Awards from the Crime Writers’ Association
September 14 Life Stories
October 10 Awesome Adventure
November 14 Geek Reads
December 12 Summer Reading
Each month Library staff prepare a reading list of
suggested titles held by Manly Library on the
theme for the coming month. The list is distributed at
the Book Discussion Group and copies are available on
the ground floor of the Library and online.
Contact Fran Inkster - Customer Services Librarian
9976 1732 or [email protected]
Book Discussion Group
Thursday Programme 2012
The Manly Library Book Discussion Group now meets
during the day. Every 2nd Thursday of the month at
10.30am in the Library’s Youth Area.
All are welcome - No Bookings Required
March 15 Young Writers: Australian Vogel’s literary awards for
writers under 35
April 12 War Mongers
May 10 Ancient Worlds
June 14 Best of British
July 12 Don’t judge a book by its movie
August 9 Dagger Awards from the Crime Writers’ Association
September 15 Life Stories
October 11 Awesome Adventure
November 15 Geek Reads
December 13 Summer Reading
Each month Library staff prepare a reading list of
suggested titles held by Manly Library on the theme for
the coming month. The list is distributed at the Book
Discussion Group and copies are available on the ground floor
of the Library and online.
Contact Fran Inkster - Customer Services Librarian
Ph: 9976 1732 Email: [email protected]
MANLY LIBRARY
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
BOOKLIST
Best of 2011
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 Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
~Attributed to Groucho Marx
 I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go
in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx
 There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to
be done around the house. ~Joe Ryan
 My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ~Thomas Helm
 Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ~Bern Williams
 Reading means borrowing. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms
 He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.
~Arabic Proverb
 Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library
are books that other folks have lent me. ~Anatole France
Adiga, Aravind.
The white tiger.
London: Atlantic Books, 2008.
F /ADIG
Connolly, John, 1968The burning soul.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011.
F /CONN
Archer, Jeffrey.
Paths of glory.
London: Macmillan, 2009.
F /ARCH
Connelly, Michael, 1956The Drop.
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2011.
F /CONN
Bainbridge, Beryl, 1933The girl in the polka-dot dress.
London: Little, Brown, 2011.
F /BAIN
Cousins, Ben.
Ben Cousin’s autobiography / Ben Cousins
with Malcolm Knox.
Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2010.
796.336/COU
Barbery, Muriel.
The elegance of the hedgehog
London: Gallic Books, 2008.
F /BARB
Barnes, Julian.
Pulse
London: Jonathan Cape, 2011.
F /BARN
Barnes, Julian.
The sense of an ending.
F /BARN
Beresford-Kroeger, Diana.
The global forest: 40 ways trees can save us.
London: Particular Books, 2011.
333.75/BER
Brooks, Geraldine, 1955People of the book.
New York: Viking, 2008.
F /BROO
FPB /AUSTRALIAN/B
Capuzzo, Mike.
The murder room: in which three of the
greatest detectives use forensic science to
solve the world's most perplexing cold cases.
London: Michael Joseph, 2011.
363.25/CAP
Catchlove, Robyn.
Somewhere down a crazy river
Sydney: Macmillan, 2010.
799.1/CAT
Coetzee, J. M., 1940Scenes from provincial life
North Sydney, N.S.W.: Vintage Books, 2011.
F /COET
Doidge, Norman.
The brain that changes itself: stories of
personal triumph from the frontiers of brain
science.
Carlton North, Vic.: Scribe Publications, 2008.
612.82/DOI
Deaver, Jeffery.
Carte blanche: a James Bond novel.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011.
F /DEAV
Dekker, Ted, 1962Forbidden
New York: Center Street, 2011.
F /DEKK
De Waal, Edmund.
The hare with amber eyes: a family's century
of art and loss.
London: Chatto & Windus, 2010.
920/WAA
NFPB/Biography
Donoghue, Emma.
Room.
London: Picador, 2010.
F /DONO
Elias, Leila Salloum.
The sweets of Araby
Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 2011.
641.59/ELI
Ellis, Kate, 1953The jackal man
London: Piatkus, 2011.
F /ELLI
Falconer, Colin.
Silk Road.
London: Corvus, 2011.
F /FALC
Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954Never let me go.
London: Faber, 2005.
F /ISHI
FPB /WORLD/I
Fine, Cordelia.
Delusions of gender: how our minds, society,
and neurosexism create difference.
New York: W. W. Norton, 2010.
612.82/FIN
Jones, Lloyd, 1955Hand me down world.
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2010.
F /JONE
Golding, Judy
The children of lovers: a memoir of William
Golding by his daughter.
London : Faber, 2011.
823.914/GOL
Goodheart, Adam.
1861: the Civil War awakening.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
973.711/GOO
Gordon, Audrey.
Audrey Gordon's Tuscan summer: recipes and
recollections from the heart of Italy
Prahran, Vic.: Hardie Grant Books, 2010.
641.59455/GOR
Gross, Gwendolen.
The orphan sister: a novel
New York: Gallery Books, 2011.
F /GROSS
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
A moveable feast.
813.52/HEM
Hennessey, Patrick.
The junior officers' reading club: killing time
and fighting wars.
London: Allen Lane, 2009.
355.009/HEN
Knox, Malcolm.
The life: a novel
F /KNOX
Larson, Erik.
In the garden of beasts: love, terror, and an
American family in Hitler's Berlin
Carlton North, Vic.: Scribe Publications, 2011.
943.086/LAR
Levy, Andrea.
The long song.
London: Headline Review, 2010.
F /LEVY
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948The forgotten affairs of youth.
F /MACC
McDermott, Kirstyn.
Madigan mine.
F /MACD
Mandanna, Sarita.
Tiger hills
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010.
F /MAND
Manfredi, Valerio Massimo.
The Ides of March
F /MANF
Hillary, Eve, 1952Sarah's last wish: a chilling glimpse into forced
Mankell, Henning.
medicine
The troubled man
Chittaway, N.S.W.: E. Hillary, 2010.
New York: Knopf, 2011.
362.1989/WES
F /MANK
Hollinghurst, Alan.
Micallef, Shaun.
The stranger's child.
Preincarnate: a novella
Prahran, Vic.: Hardie Grant, 2010.
F /HOLL
F /MICA
Moriarty, Liane.
The hypnotist's love story.
XX(846816.2)
Silva, Daniel.
The Rembrandt affair.
New York: G.P. Putnam, 2010.
F /SILV
FPB /THRILLER
Morrissey, Di.
The opal desert
Sydney, N.S.W.: Macmillan, 2011.
F /MORR
Silvey, Craig, 1982Jasper Jones
F /SILV
O'Flynn, Catherine.
The news where you are.
Camberwell, Vic.: Viking, 2010.
F /OFLY
Simon, Rachel, 1959The story of beautiful girl.
New York: Grand Central Pub., 2011.
F /SIMO
Ogawa, Yoko.
The housekeeper and the professor
New York: Picador, 2009.
F /OGAW
FPB /WORLD/O
Skloot, Rebecca.
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2009.
616/LAC
Perlman, Elliot, 1964The street sweeper
Sydney: Vintage/Random House Aust., 2011.
F /PERL
Smith, Patti.
Just kids
New York: Ecco, 2010.
780.42/SMI
Phillips, Marie.
Gods behaving badly.
F /PHIL
Solnit, Rebecca.
Infinite city: a San Francisco atlas.
Berkeley, Calif.; London: University of
California Press, 2010.
912.7946/SOL
Picoult, Jodi, 1966Nineteen minutes.
New York: Atria Books, 2007.
F /PICO
Rachman, Tom.
The imperfectionists
Melbourne: Text, 2010.
F /RACH
Rankin, Ian, 1960The impossible dead
London: Orion, 2011.
F /RANK
Robotham, Michael.
Bleed for me.
London: Sphere, 2010
F /ROBO
Sanderson, Catherine, 1972Petite Anglaise.
920/SAN
Squires, Constance.
Along the watchtower
New York: Riverhead Books, 2011.
F /SQUI
Strout, Elizabeth.
Abide with me.
New York: Random House, 2006.
F /STRO
Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969.
A confederacy of dunces.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Uni, 1980.
FPB /CLASSIC/T
Wallace, David Foster.
The pale king: an unfinished novel
Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin, 2011.
F /WALL
Wilkerson, Isabel.
The warmth of other suns: the epic story of
America's great migration.
304.873/WIL
MANLY LIBRARY
BOOKLIST
Relationships
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters
are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. Margaret Mead
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
Unknown
The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of
them must be good at taking orders. Linda Festa
Mars and Venus? Nope. The only problem between the genders is that we each have the
others needs and wants backwards. Men want to be needed, and women need to be
wanted. Not the other way around. It's that simple! Unknown
Abramson, Neil, 1964Unsaid
F /ABRA
Ahern, Cecelia.
The time of my life.
London: HarperCollins, 2011.
F /AHER
Allen, Jeff.
Get laid or die trying: the field reports.
306.81/ALL
Beckett, Bernard, 1968August
F /BECK
Blair, Jessica, 1923-.
Secrets of a Whitby girl
London: Piatkus, c2011.
F /BLAI
Brady, Sally Ryder.
A box of darkness: the story of a marriage.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2011.
813.54/BRA
Breslin, Ed.
Drinking with Miss Dutchie: a memoir.
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2011.
070.5/BRE
Cockburn, Patrick, 1950Henry's demons: living with schizophrenia, a
father and son's story.
New York: Scribner, 2011.
616.898/COC
Cole, Kresley.
Dreams of a dark warrior
London: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
F /COLE
FPB /ROMANCE
Delaney, Frank.
The matchmaker of Kenmare: a novel of
Ireland
New York: Random House, c2011.
F /DELA
Edwards, Kim, 1958The lake of dreams.
Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin, 2011.
F /EDWA
Enright, Anne, 1962The forgotten waltz.
F /ENRI
Ferreira, Adrienne.
Watercolours
Sydney: HarperCollins, 2011.
F /FERR
Fforde, Katie.
Summer of love
London: Century, 2011.
F /FFOR
Fowler, Therese.
Exposure
New York: Ballantine Books, 2011.
F /FOWL
Gabrielsson, Eva.
Stieg & me
Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2011.
839.738/GAB
Gíslason, Kári
The promise of Iceland.
St Lucia, Qld: Univ. of Queensland Pr, 2011.
920/GIS
Glattauer, Daniel.
Love virtually
London: MacLehose, 2011.
F /GLAT
Dave, Laura.
The first husband.
F /DAVE
Goldberg, Carey.
Three wishes: an ext[r]aordinary true story of
good friends on their journey to motherhood.
920/GOL
Dawson, Lucy.
The one that got away
F /DAWS
Griffin, Ella.
Postcards from the heart.
London rion, 2011.
F /GRIF
Groeschel, Craig.
Weird: because normal isn't working
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2011.
F /GROE
Grey, Amelia.
Fall in love like a romance writer.
Deerfield Beach, FL : Health Com. 2011.
305.3/GRE
Hale, Benjamin.
The evolution of Bruno Littlemore
New York: Twelve, 2011.
F /HALE
Herron, Rachael.
Lucy's kiss
Sydney: Random House Australia, 2011.
F /HERR
Harris, Rosie, 1925A brighter dawn
London: Arrow, 2011.
F /HARR
Harrison, Kate.
The secret shopper affair.
F /HARR
Harte, Sarah.
The better half
Dublin: Penguin, 2011.
F /HART
Hein, Cathryn.
Promises
Camberwell, Vic: Michael Joseph, 2011.
F /HEIN
Hill, Melissa.
Something from Tiffany's
F /HILL
Hilton, David E.
Kings of Colorado.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
F /HILT
Hogan, Linda.
Wrestling the Hulk: my life against the ropes.
New York: William Morrow, 2011.
796.812/HOG
Hunter, Humfrey.
The men files: what men really think about life,
love, dating and a whole lot more.
London: Headline, 2011.
305/HUN
Itzkoff, Dave.
Cocaine's son: a memoir.
New York: Villard, 2011.
362.29/ITZ
Jeffries, Sabrina.
How to woo a reluctant lady
New York: Pocket Star Books, 2011.
FPB /ROMANCE
Kultgen, Chad.
Men, women & children: a novel
New York: Harper Perennial, 2011.
F /KULT
Laurens, Stephanie.
Tangled reins
Sutton, England: Seven House, 2011, c1992.
F /LAUR
Lawrenson, Deborah.
The lantern
New York: Harper, c2011.
F /LAWR
Live and let love: notes from extraordinary
women on the layers, the laughter, and the
litter of love
306.7/LIV
Mansell, Jill.
To the moon and back.
F /MANS
Meaney, Roisin.
The things we do for love.
Dublin: Hachette Books Ireland, 2011.
F /MEAN
Moore, Meg Mitchell.
The arrivals
Sydney: HarperCollins, 2011.
F /MOOR
Moorhouse, Frank, 1938Cold light
F /MOOR
Murakami, Haruki, 19491Q84
London: Harvill Secker, 2011.
F /MURA
Sands, Lynsay.
The heiress
New York: Avon; c2011.
FPB /ROMANCE
Murray, Jenni, 1950My boy Butch: the heart-warming true story of
a little dog who made life worth living again.
636.76/MUR
Sherborne, Craig.
The amateur science of love
F /SHER
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938A widow's story: a memoir
London: Fourth Estate, 2011.
813.54/OAT
920/OAT
O'Flanagan, Sheila.
All for you.
F /OFLA
Picoult, Jodi, 1966Sing you home.
F /PICO
Precious, Dana.
Born under a lucky moon.
New York: Morrow, 2011.
FPB /CHICK-LIT/P
Quinn, Anthony, 1964Half of the human race
F /QUIN
Richards, Denise, 1972The real girl next door
791.43/RIC
Robards, Karen.
Justice
F /ROBA
Roberts, Nora.
The next always.
New York: Berkley Books, 2011.
F /ROBE
Roffey, Monique.
With the kisses of his mouth: a memoir.
823.92/ROF
Stuart, Anne.
Reckless
Chatswood, N.S.W.: Mira, 2011, ©2010.
F /STUA
FPB /ROMANCE
Taylor, Cory, 1955Me and Mr Booker
Melbourne, Vic.: Text Pub., 2011.
F /TAYL
Trout, Nick.
Ever by my side: a memoir of in eight pets.
New York: Broadway Books, 2011.
636.089/TRO
Veronesi, Sandro, 1959Quiet chaos: a novel
New York: Ecco, 2011.
F /VERO
FPB /WORLD/V
Winston, Hilary.
My boyfriend wrote a book about me: and
other stories I shouldn't share with
acquaintances, co-workers, taxi drivers,
assistants, job interviewers, bikini waxers and
ex/current/future boyfriends but have.
New York: Sterling, 2011.
306.73/WIN
Wolitzer, Meg.
The Uncoupling.
New York: Riverhead, 2011.
F /WOLI
Wood, Charlotte, 1965Animal people.
F /WOOD
Yoshimoto, Banana.
The lake
Brooklyn: Melville House, c2011.
F /YOSH
Zeaman, John.
Dog walks man: a six-legged odyssey.
London: Hamlyn, 2011.
636.7/ZEA
MANLY LIBRARY
BOOKLIST
The Australian/Vogel’s
Literary Awards
The next meeting of the Book Discussion Group
will be on Wednesday 14 March at 6 pm
The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award is one of Australia's richest and the most
prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under the age of thirty-five.
Offering publication by Allen & Unwin and prize money totalling $20,000, The
Australian/Vogel's Literary Award has launched the careers of some of Australia's most
successful writers, including Tim Winton, Kate Grenville, Gillian Mears, Brian Castro,
Mandy Sayer and Andrew McGahan.
The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award-winning authors have gone on to win or be
shortlisted for other major awards, such as the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth
Writers' Prize and the Booker Prize.
HISTORY:
The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award began its remarkable life in early 1980 when Niels
Stevns, the owner of Vogel bread in Australia, approached the literary editor of The
Australian, Peter Ward, about collaborating on a cultural prize.
As a young man in his early twenties, Niels Stevns had come to Australia from Denmark.
He had been in his new country for several years when he decided to accompany a sick
relative to Switzerland to meet the renowned Swiss naturopath Dr Vogel. This significant
meeting led to the establishment of Vogels bread in Australia and to Stevns' successful
and rewarding career. His approach to The Australian in 1980 was inspired by gratitude
to his adopted land—he wanted to give something back to the nation which had made
possible his flourishing business. Literature and classical music were his two great
passions, and after much discussion he decided on a literary award, with the emphasis
on providing an opportunity for young writers.
Following Stevns' call, Peter Ward rang Patrick Gallagher, Allen & Unwin's Managing
Director, which led to the successful collaboration between Vogel's, The Australian and
Allen & Unwin - and to the birth of The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award, with a prize of
$10,000 provided by Vogels for the best manuscript submitted by an author under 30.
The Australian undertook to promote the award and Allen & Unwin guaranteed to publish
the winning manuscript. In 1982 the age limit of the Award was increased to 35 and the
prize money was subsequently increased to $15,000. In 1998 the prize money was
further increased to $18,000, in 1999 it increased to $19,000, and it is currently $20,000.
In 1997 the traditional number of three judges was increased to four, in response to the
ever-growing number of manuscripts submitted to the Award. The judges, who generally
serve a three-year term, are selected from among prominent academics, critics and
writers and have included Nancy Keesing, Robert Drewe, Helen Garner, Tom Keneally,
Marele Day, Andrea Stretton, Barry Oakley, Geoffrey Dutton, Andrew Reimer, Jill Kitson,
Alex Buzo, Cate Kennedy and Geordie Williamson.
Alan Stevns, Niel's son, is now the steward of The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award,
which he sees as a lasting memorial to his father.
2011
The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson
F/WILS
A surprisingly beautiful evocation of horror and brutality, The Roving Party is a
meditation on the intricacies of human nature at its most raw.
Description:
1829, Tasmania - John Batman, ruthless, singleminded; four convicts, the
youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black
trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white
man. This is the roving party and their purpose is massacre. With promises of
freedom, land grants and money, each is willing to risk his life for the prize.
Passing over many miles of tortured country, the roving party searches for
Aborigines, taking few prisoners and killing freely, Batman never abandoning the
visceral intensity of his hunt. And all the while, Black Bill pursues his personal
quarry, the much-feared warrior, Manalargena.
2009
Night Street by Kristel Thornell
FPB/AUSTRALIAN/T
An intensely satisfying novel that celebrates the short richly lived life of Australian
artist, Clarice Beckett.
Description:
Night Street is the passionate story of a young painter, Clarice Beckett, who defies
society's strict conventions and indifferent art critics alike and leads an intense
private and professional life. With her extraordinary talent for making simple city
and seascapes haunting and mysteriously revelatory, Clarice paints prolifically and
lives largely, overcoming the seemingly confined existence as the spinster
daughter in the parental home.
Night Street began with Thornell's first encounter with the paintings of Melbourne
artist Clarice Beckett (1887-1935) at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The subtle
power of Clarice's highly atmospheric, enigmatic landscapes enabled her to
imagine Clarice's inner life and shape an extraordinary novel.
And
Utopian Man by Lisa Lang
FPB/AUSTRALIAN/L
An exquisite historical novel about a remarkable man who chose his own path,
charming and scandalising others in equal measure.
Description:
It's the 1880s and Marvellous Melbourne is a lavish and raucous city where
anything could happen. Eccentric entrepreneur Edward William Cole is building
the sprawling Cole's Book Arcade and filling it with whatever amuses him, or
supports his favourite causes: a giant squid, a brass band, monkeys, a black man
whose skin has turned white, a Chinese tea salon, and of course, hundreds of
thousands of books. When Edward decides to marry he advertises for a wife in the
newspaper, shocking and titillating the whole town. To everyone's surprise he
marries his broadsheet bride and the Arcade grows into a monumental success.
But the 1890s depression hits Melbourne - and Edward - hard, and the death of
one of his children leaves him reeling. Grief, corruption and a beautiful,
unscrupulous widow all threaten to derail his singular vision. But it's not until he
visits Chinatown one night - and his own deeply suppressed past - that the idealist
faces his toughest challenge.
Utopian Man is the story of a man who lives life on his own terms, and leaves
behind a remarkable legacy.
2008
Document Z by Andrew Croome
F/CROO
A masterful, taut and atmospheric novel of political espionage and intrigue, telling
the story of the Petrov defection during the Cold War of the 1950s.
Description:
Canberra, 1951. The Cold War is at its height. Into an atmosphere of paranoia,
rumour and suspicion, Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov are among a group of new
arrivals at the Soviet Embassy in Canberra. Both are party loyalists, working for
the MVD, Moscow intelligence. Yet all is not well in the new city of Canberra. The
atmosphere in the Embassy is tense and suspicious; the Ambassador resents
their presence, and is secretly working to have Vladimir disgraced and recalled. In
the meantime, ASIO are determined to discover who in this new group works for
the MVD. Only three short years later, Vladimir has defected and his wife Evdokia
is held prisoner at the Soviet Embassy, waiting to be transported back to Russia to
face punishment or death for his crime. How did it come to this?
A tightly told story of secrets, lies, deception and betrayal - both personal and
political - a taut and atmospheric novel of political espionage and intrigue which
brings our recent history vividly and immediately to life.
2007
I Dream of Magda by Stefan Laszczuk
2006
The River Baptists by Belinda Castles
FPB/AUSTRALIAN/L
Genuinely engaging, funny and utterly surprising, a novel of brothers, family and
loss.
Description:
'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'
Tolstoy wasn't thinking specifically of the Harrison family when he wrote those
words, but maybe he should have been. George Harrison is twenty-eight and
afraid of the dark. His father is dead and his mother lives in la-la land. Reeling
from a broken heart, and still coping with the trauma of a childhood home invasion,
George works in a dead-end job in a bowling alley and finds rare solace in the
giant painting of an alien that sits outside his room. His brother Matthew isn't much
better off. After losing the love of his life in a traumatic car accident, he's retreated
into a private world of sleep where he dreams about falling in love with
comedienne Magda Szubanski.
Matthew and George are each stuck in their own little messed-up world, with no
idea how to get out, and neither of them is sure whether their unhappy family will
ever finally pull together, or simply just fall apart.
This is a quirky, left-field, yet deeply felt and wholly engaging story of families,
love, loss and grieving.
FPB/AUSTRALIAN/C
A subtle, evocative and engrossing story of secrets, lies and the weight of living
with the past.
Description:
An engrossing novel of secrets, small communities and the consequences of living
with the past.
Set in a small riverside community, The River Baptists tells the story of Rose,
bunkered down in a borrowed house overlooking the river, grieving for her dead
father and waiting for her baby to be born. It is also the story of Danny, another
refugee from life elsewhere, hiding out from his violent father and dreaming of
owning a block of land on the river. Then there are the river old-timers, who miss
nothing and forget less, and a newcomer who cares nothing for the locals, or the
secrets of the past. Set over the course of a long hot tense summer, when sparks
constantly threaten to ignite bushfires, the tight-knit riverside community is set
alight by confidences betrayed and a renewed age-old grudge.
And through it all flows the mysterious pulse of the river, indifferent, deep and
calm, offering the possibility of life and death, renewal and rebirth.
2005
Tuvalu by Andrew O'Connor
FPB/WORLD/O
A pitch perfect, intriguing, artful novel about exile and apathy, attraction and
isolation.
Description:
A love story of sorts, Tuvalu tells the story of Noah Tuttle, who is glumly and
aimlessly living a half kind of life in a cheap rundown hostel in the seamier margins
of Tokyo, a place overrun with feral cats and cockroaches. He teaches mediocre
English to disinterested students, sleeps with his girlfriend, Tilly, when she's
around, drinks beer when he can afford it, and generally avoids other people and
their expectations. Nothing much happens to him - until, that is, he meets the
wealthy, captivating and completely self-absorbed Mami Kaketa, a supremely
selfish creature who leaves people like so much litter in her wake, so brazen and
capricious she should come with a health warning.
A blackly funny, inconclusive and strangely beguiling story of ennui, escape, exile
and dreams.
2004
Road Story by Julienne van Loon
FPB/AUSTRALIAN/V
A gritty, sun drenched novel about friendship, loneliness and addiction.
Description:
Diana Kooper runs from a car crash in the heart of Sydney, scarcely looking back,
leaving her best friend, Nicole, slumped and bloody in the damaged vehicle.
After hitching a ride to the far west of New South Wales, Diana takes a job as a
kitchenhand at Bob's, an isolated truck-stop. At first she thinks she can predict the
sort of rhythm her life will follow in this dusty, diesel-driven, lonely stop but soon a
series of unsettling events disturb the order of things. A dog is brutally stabbed to
death and left as a warning beside one of the petrol bowsers. And when Bob rolls
his ute in suspicious circumstances, Diana is left to look after the roadhouse
kitchen on her own. As every-day life becomes increasingly challenging, Diana
struggles with her past and with the ghosts that haunt her present.
Road Story is a remarkable novel that reveals the tenuousness of love between
friends and the dark pervasiveness of addiction.
2003
2002
2001
Drown Them in the Sea by Nicholas Angel
FPB/AUSTRALIAN/A
An evocative story about the dreams and desperate realities of life on the land in
the Australian outback. With spare, intense language, Nicholas Angel writes of this
arid country and the people who struggle to work it.
Description:
With dreams of moving to a house by the sea haunting their every day, Millvan
and his wife, Michelle, owners of a riverside property in a small outback farming
community, struggle with drought, friends, adversaries and the wrenchingly
familiar rural cycle of hope and despair.
Drown them in the Sea tells a compellingly honest story of the challenges and
hardships of farming life in Australia. In vivid, vital language, Nicholas Angel
captures both devastated landscape and human desire in this powerfully authentic
evocation of life on the land.
The Alphabet of Light and Dark by Danielle Wood
FPB/AUSTRALIAN/W
Melding personal, family and colonial history, Wood's evocative and lyrical prose
explores the past and place, searching and belonging, love, loss and grief. The
Alphabet of Light and Dark is more than an historical novel; it's a novel about
history.
Description:
A tiny coin found inside a Cloudy Bay oyster, a postcard of a white-haired child
leaning against a beached dinghy and a coconut peeled and carved once upon a
time on the Batavian coast. These trinkets, found in a sea chest, and the
fragmented memories of her grandfather's tall tales are all Essie Lewis has left of
her family history.
After her grandfather's death, Essie returns to Bruny Island, Tasmania and to the
lighthouse where her great-great-grandfather kept watch for nearly 40 years.
Beneath the lighthouse, she begins to write the stories of her ancestors. But the
island is also home to Pete Shelverton, a sculptor who hunts feral cats to make his
own peace with the past. And as Essie writes, she finds that Pete is a part of the
history she can never escape.
Skins by Sarah Hay
FPB/AUSTRALIAN/H
A compelling, wild novel based on the true story of a young English woman who
survives a shipwreck off the coast of Western Australia in 1835.
Description:
Shipwrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1835, Dorothea Newell is
marooned on Middle Island with other survivors. Stranded, they seek shelter in a
sealers' camp. The desolate environment of the island camp is a place where men
from all corners of the globe struggle to trade seal skins, and the appearance of
women-rare commodities in that place and time-opens a further form of trade. As a
desperate means of survival, Dorothea is forced into an alliance with the camp's
fierce leader, John Anderson.
Skins is the compelling story of Dorothea's emotional and physical journey back to
civilisation. Featuring an immense, wild landscape of ocean and islands untainted
by human existence, Sarah Hay writes a remarkable tale of people who have
fallen through the gaps of recorded history.
Shortlisted:
Sibyl's Cave by Catherine Padmore
FPB/AUSTRALIAN/P
2000
The Artist is a Thief by Stephen Gray (winner) is held at Mosman and
Chatswood
Attempts to Draw Jesus Stephen Orr (runner-up) is on order and also
held at Lane Cove
1999
Love and Vertigo by Hsu-Ming Teo – (winner) is on order and also held at
Lane Cove, Mosman, Stanton and Chatswood.
The Water Underneath by Kate Lyons- (runner up) is held at Lane Cove
1998
Pegasus in the Suburbs by Jennifer Kremmer is held at Lance Cove and
Chatswood.
1997
Hiam by Eva Sallis
FPB/WORLD/S
Hiam is the story of a journey through both a psychic and geographic landscape, a
journey through disintegration and loss. Hiam, an Arab migrant woman, abandons
Adelaide to unravel her life and memories on the road North after her family and
identity have been destroyed. In the course of the novel she weaves an identity
out of past, present, stories, dreams and the Australian landscape with which she
engages for the first time.
1996
The Blindman's Hat by Bernard Cohen
not held in Shorelink Libraries
1995
Kindling Does For Firewood by Richard King (winner) not held
Eleven Months In Bunbury by James Ricks (runner up) not held
1994
Swimming In Silk by Darren Williams (winner) held at Lane Cove
Crew by Tony McGowan (highly commended) not held
Bombora by Tegan Bennett (short-listed) is on order
1993
The Hand That Signed The Paper by Helen Darville (originally published
under the pseudonym Demidenko) is on order
1992
The Mule's Foal by Fotini Epanomitis is held at Chatswood
1991
Praise by Andrew McGahan is on order
1990
The Mint Lawn by Gillian Mears is on order
1989
Mood Indigo by Mandy Sayer is on order
1988
Oceana Fine by Tom Flood is held at Chatswood
1987
Ilias by Jim Sakkas is held at Lane Cove
1986
Glace Fruits by Robin Walton is not held
1985
No prize awarded
1984
Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville is on order
1983
Shields Of Trell by Jenny Summerville is not held
1982
Birds of Passage by Brian Castro (joint winner) is held at Lane Cove,
Mosman and Stanton
Matilda, My Darling by Nigel Krauth (joint winner) is held at Lane Cove
and Chatswood
1981
Al Jazzar by Chris Matthews (joint winner) is not held
An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton (joint winner) FPB/AUSTRALIAN/W
1980
The Day Of The Dog by Archie Weller (shortlisted)
FPB/W
Jack Rivers and Me by Paul Radley. The winner was disqualified when
the author revealed that it was actually written by his uncle.
Many of the early award winners are now out of print and may not be available
from some libraries. You may find like to read some later works by the same
author.
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War Mongers
will be on Wednesday 11 April at 6 pm
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an
evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's
children. Jimmy Carter, Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2002
All war represents a failure of diplomacy. Tony Benn, speech, Feb. 28, 1991
There never was a good war, or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's
Almanac
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. Thomas Hardy, The
Dynasts
In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill
In war, truth is the first casualty. Aeschylus
After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price. Salman
Rushdie, preface, The Jaguar Smile
Fiction:
Bishop, Patrick (Patrick Joseph)
Follow me home
London: Hodder, 2011.
F /BISH
Boyne, John, 1971The Absolutist.
London: Doubleday, 2011.
F /BOYN
Dekker, Ted, 1962Forbidden
F /DEKK
Deutermann, Peter T.
Pacific glory: a novel
F /DEUT
Dinsdale, Robert.
Three miles
London: Faber & Faber, 2011.
F /DINS
Docker, Peter, 1964The waterboys.
Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Press, 2011.
F /DOCK
Endicott, Marina.
The little shadows.
F /ENDI
Felice, Simone, 1976Black Jesus
F /FELI
McEuen, Paul.
Spiral.
F /MACE
Mason, Bobbie Ann.
The girl in the blue beret.
F /MASO
Mazzantini, Margaret.
Twice born
F /MAZZ
Otsuka, Julie, 1962The Buddha in the attic
F /OTSU
Pick, Alison.
Far to go
F /PICK
Rayne, Sarah.
What lies beneath
F /RAYN
Rosenheim, Andrew.
Fear itself.
London: Hutchinson, 2011.
F /ROSE
Sayles, John, 1950A moment in the sun: a novel
San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, c2011.
F /SAYL
Jenoff, Pam.
The things we cherished.
New York: Doubleday, 2011.
F /JENO
Schlesak, Dieter.
The druggist of Auschwitz: a documentary
novel
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
F /SCHL
Keilson, Hans.
The death of the adversary
London: Vintage, 2011.
F /KEIL
Sem-Sandberg, Steve, 1958The emperor of lies
London: Faber & Faber, 2011.
F /SEMS
Low, Robert.
The lion wakes.
F /LOW
Shaara, Jeff.
The final storm.
New York: Ballantine, 2011.
F /SHAA
Simons, Jake Wallis.
The English German girl.
Edinburgh: Polygon, 2011.
F /SIMO
Squires, Constance.
Along the watchtower
F /SQUI
Young, Louisa.
My dear I wanted to tell you.
F /YOUN
Non-fiction:
Avey, Denis.
The man who broke into Auschwitz
940.5472/AVE
Barcott, Rye.
It happened on the way to war: a marine's
path to peace.
London: Bloomsbury, 2011.
362.556/BAR
Bergen, Peter L.
A longest war: the enduring conflict between
America and al-Qaeda.
New York: Free Press, 2011.
909.831/BER
Boat people: personal stories from the
Vietnamese exodus 1975 – 1992
Cloverdale, W.A.: Carina Hoang
Communications, 2010.
325.94/BOA
Bradley, Rusty.
Lions of Kandahar: the story of a fight against
all odds
New York: Bantam Books, 2011.
958.104/BRA
Carter, Stephen L., 1954The violence of peace: America's wars in the
age of Obama
New York: Beast Books, 2011.
973.932/OBA
Collie, Craig.
Nagasaki: the massacre of the innocent and
unknowing.
940.5425/COL
Cull, W. Ambrose (William Ambrose)
Both sides of the wire: the memoir of an Aust.
officer captured during the great war.
940.472/CUL
Dallaire, Romeo.
They fight like soldiers, they die like children.
967.571/DAL
Dando-Collins, Stephen.
Crack hardy: from Gallipoli to Flanders to the
Somme, the true story of 3 brothers at war.
North Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House, 2011.
940.48/SEA
De Soyza, Niromi.
Tamil tigress: my story as a child soldier in Sri
Lanka's bloody civil war.
322.42/DES
El Baradei, Mohamed.
The age of deception: nuclear diplomacy in
treacherous times
327.1747/ELB
Hastings, Max.
All hell let loose: the world at war 1939-45.
London: HarperPress, 2011.
940.53/HAS
Hillenbrand, Laura.
Unbroken: a World War II story of survival,
resilience, and redemption.
940.5472/ZAM
Hoffman, David E. (David Emanuel), 1953The dead hand: Reagan, Gorbachev and the
untold story of the Cold War arms race
London: Icon, 2011.
909.82/HOF
James, Andrew.
Kokoda wallaby: Stan Bisset: the rugby
international who became a Kokoda hero.
796.333/JAM
Jewell, Matina
Caught in the crossfire: an Australian
peacekeeper beyond the frontline
Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2011.
355.357/JEW
Jordan, Jonathan W.
Brothers, rivals, victors: Eisenhower, Patton,
Bradley, and the partnership that drove the
Allied conquest in Europe.
New York: NAL Caliber, 2011.
940.54/JOR
Sadeed, Suraya
Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse: the
true story of a woman who risked everything
to bring hope to Afghanistan
London: Virago, 2011.
958.1047/SAD
Kempe, Frederick.
Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the
most dangerous place on earth.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2011.
and government--1945-1990.
943.155/KEM
Sorley, Lewis.
Westmoreland: the general who lost Vietnam.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
959.7043/WES
Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926Witness to an extreme century: a memoir
973.92/LIF
Stearns, Jason K.
Dancing in the glory of monsters: the collapse
of the Congo and the great war of Africa.
New York: PublicAffairs, 2011.
967.51/STE
Milton, Giles, 1966Wolfram: the boy who went to war
London: Sceptre, 2011.
940.5413/AIC
Thomas, Louisa.
Conscience: two soldiers, two pacifists, one
family - a test of will and faith in World War I.
New York: Penguin Press, 2011.
940.316/THO
Moorehead, Caroline.
A train in winter: a story of resistance,
friendship and survival.
940.547/MOO
Thomson, Jimmy.
Tunnel rats: the larrikin Aussie legends who
discovered the Vietcong's secret weapon.
Crows Nest, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin, 2011.
959.7/THO
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1938Dreams in a time of war: a childhood memoir.
New York: Anchor Books, 2010.
828.914/NGU
Van Buren, Peter.
We meant well: how I helped lose the war for
the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people.
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2011.
956.7044/VAN
Nichols, David.
Eisenhower 1956: the president's year of
crisis: Suez and the brink of war
New York: Simon & Schuster, c2011.
973.921/EIS
Plokhy, Serhii.
Yalta: the price of peace
940.5314/PLO
Reid, Atka.
Goodbye Sarajevo: a true story of courage,
love and survival
949.742/REI
Rosenbaum, Ron.
How the end begins: the road to a nuclear
World War III.
355.0215/ROS
Von Tunzelmann, Alex, 1977Red heat: conspiracy, murder and the Cold
War in the Caribbean
972.9052/VON
Waller, Douglas C.
Wild Bill Donovan: the spymaster who created
the OSS and modern American espionage
940.5486/DON
Zimmerman, Bill.
Troublemaker: a memoir from the front lines of
the sixties.
973.92/ZIM
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Ancient Worlds
will be on Wednesday 9 May at 6 pm
How old is ancient?
Civilisation are usually termed ‘ancient’ if they existed about 2,000 years ago or before,
therefore it is worth noting that the Incan and Aztec archaelological sites of Machu Picchu and
Tenochtitlán respectively date back to about the fourteenth century A.D. and the Vikings to the
ninth and tenth centuries A.D.
How have ancient civilisations shaped our present?
Fiction:
Alten, Steve.
The Mayan prophecy
London: Quercus, 2011, c2001.
F /ALTE
Baxter, Stephen.
Bronze summer.
London: Gollancz, 2011.
F /BAXT
Burke, James Lee, 1936Rain gods.
F /BURK
Byrnes, Michael.
The Genesis plague.
F /BYRN
Deane, Joel, 1969The Norseman's song
Melbourne, Vic.: Hunter Publishers, 2010.
F /DEAN
Gash, Jonathan, 1933The ten word game.
London: Alison & Busby, 2003.
F /GASH
Gregory, Jill.
The illumination
F /GREG
Hamilton, Lyn.
The Orkney scroll
New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2006.
F /HAMI
FPB /DETECTION
Hamilton, Lyn.
The chinese alchemist.
F /HAMI
Himsworth, Neil.
Nobilitas: a novel of ancient Rome.
Brighton, Sussex: Book Guild, 2009.
F /HIMS
Holt, Anne.
1222
F /HOLT
Hwang, Sok Yong.
The ancient garden
F /HWAN
Lott, Bret.
Ancient highway: a novel
F /LOTT
Manfredi, Valerio Massimo.
The ancient curse
F /MANF
Hamilton, Lyn.
The Etruscan chimera.
New York; Berkley, 2002.
F /HAMI
Tremayne, Peter, 1943Dancing with demons : a mystery of ancient
Ireland
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008.
F /TREM
Hamilton, Lyn.
The Thai amulet.
F /HAMI
Zhang, Wei.
The ancient ship
London: Harper Perennial, 2008.
FPB /WORLD/Z
Hamilton, Lyn.
The Magyar Venus.
F /HAMI
Hamilton, Lyn.
The Moai murders
F /HAMI
Non-fiction:
Adams, Mark.
Turn right at Machu Picchu: rediscovering the
lost city one step at a time.
New York: Dutton, 2011.
985.37/ADA
Dawn, Maggi
The accidental pilgrim : new journeys on
ancient pathways.
263.041/DAW
Báez, Fernando, 1970A universal history of the destruction of books:
from ancient Sumer to modern Iraq
New York: Atlas & Co., 2008.
027/BAE
Fagan, Brian M. (Brian Murray), 1936The first North Americans: an archaeological
journey
New York, N.Y.: Thames & Hudson, 2011.
970/FAG
Billington, Penny.
The path of Druidry: walking the ancient green
way.
Woodbury, Minn.: Llewellyn Pub, c2011.
299.16/BIL
Feeney, Denis.
Caesar's calendar: ancient time and the
beginnings of history.
Berkeley, Calif.; London: University of
California Press, 2007.
529.3/FEE
Billows, Richard A.
Marathon: how one battle changed western
civilization.
New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2010.
938/BIL
Goldin, Paul R.
Confucianism
Durham: Acumen, 2010.
181.112/GOL
Bowden, Hugh.
Mystery cults of the ancient world.
London Princeton University Press, 2010.
200.9/BOW
The great empires of the ancient world
Los Angeles, Calif.: The J. Paul Getty
Museum, 2009.
930/GRE
Camp, John.
The world of the ancient Greeks
New York, N.Y.: Thames & Hudson, 2010.
938/CAM
Haywood, John, 1956The ancient world
London: Quercus, 2010.
930/HAY
Carroll, James, 1943Jerusalem, Jerusalem: how the ancient city
ignited our modern world.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
956.9442/CAR
Hazzard, Shirley, 1931The ancient shore: dispatches from Naples
Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Pr, 2008.
914.573/HAZ
Cartledge, Paul.
Ancient Greece: a history in eleven cities.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
938/CAR
Hunt, Terry L.
The statues that walked: unraveling the
mystery of Easter Island
New York: Free Press, ©2011.
996.18/HUN
Coe, Michael D. (Michael Douglas)
The Maya
London: Thames and Hudson, 2011.
972.81/COE
I am soldier: war stories from the ancient world
to the 20th century
Oxford: Osprey, 2009.
355.109/IAM
Davis, Wade.
The wayfinders: why ancient wisdom matters
in the modern world.
Crawley, W.A.: UWA Publishing, 2010.
305.8/DAV
Johnson, Anthony.
Solving Stonehenge: the new key to an
ancient enigma.
London: Thames & Hudson, 2008.
936.1/JOH
Krebs, Christopher B.
A most dangerous book: Tacitus's Germania
from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich.
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2011.
878/TAC
Lewis-Williams, J. David.
Deciphering ancient minds: the mystery of
San Bushman Rock Art
759.0113/LEW
Malin, David.
Ancient light: a portrait of the universe.
London: Phaidon Press, 2009.
523.1/MAL
Menzies, Gavin.
The lost empire of Atlantis: history's greatest
mystery revealed.
London: Swordfish, 2011.
938.01/MEN
Miles, Richard, 1969Ancient worlds: the search for the origins of
western civilization
909/MIL
Milovanovic, Mirko.
Rome: discovering the ancient metropolis
[Germany]: Bucher Publishing, 2010.
914.5632/MIL
O'Brien, Cormac.
The fall of empires: from glory of ruin, an epic
account of history's ancient civilisations.
Sydney: Murdoch Books, 2009.
325.32/OBR
Oliver, Neil.
A history of ancient Britain
936.1/OLI
INPROCESS no circ
Potter, D. S. (David Stone), 1957The victor's crown: a history of ancient sport
from Homer to Byzantium.
796.09/POT
Preston, Diana, 1952Cleopatra and Antony: power, love, and
politics in the ancient world.
New York: Walker & Co, 2009.
932/CLE
The Roman army: the greatest war machine of
the ancient world
London: Osprey, 2010.
355.0937/ROM
Ryan, Donald P.
Ancient Egypt on five deben a day.
932/RYA
Ryan, Donald P.
Beneath the sands of Egypt: adventures of an
unconventional archaeologist
New York: William Morrow, c2010.
932/RYA
Sabin, Philip A. G.
Lost battles: reconstructing the great clashes
of the ancient world
London: Hambledon Continuum, 2009.
930.16/SAB
Sawyer, Ralph D.
Ancient Chinese warfare.
New York: Basic Books, 2011.
355.02/SAW
Stothard, Peter.
On the Spartacus road: a spectacular journey
through ancient Italy.
London: Harper Press, 2010.
937.05/STO
War: from ancient Egypt to Iraq
[New York]: DK, 2009.
355/WAR
Waxman, Sharon.
Loot: the battle over the stolen treasures of
the ancient world.
New York: Times Books, 2008.
709.01/WAX
Wilkinson, Toby A. H.
The rise and fall of ancient Egypt: the history
of a civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
932/WIL
Yu, Dan, 1965Confucius from the heart: ancient wisdom for
today's world
181.112/YU
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Best of British
will be on Wednesday 13 June at 6 pm
A strong crop of British authors emerged during the 20th century. From "The Waste Land" to
"1984," 20th century British writers helped shape the modern and postmodern movements in
art and literature.
While they have been strong in number, the majority of great works came during the first half of
the century. Unparalleled economic and geopolitical catastrophes helped mould a generation
raised with great hardship and little hope. World Wars I and II and the severe economic
depression in between encouraged the exploration of themes like destitution and loss and
accounts of adventures from the battlefronts and breadlines.
Fiction:
Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001.
Mostly harmless.
London: Heinemann, 1992.
FPB /SCI-FI
Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001.
The salmon of doubt: hitchhiking the galaxy
one last time.
FPB /A
Adams, Richard.
Daniel.
Hull, U.K.: Wrecking Ball Press, 2006.
F /ADAM
Adams, Richard, 1920Watership Down.
London: Penguin, 1974.
F /ADAM
FPB /CLASSIC/A
Amis, Martin, 1949The pregnant widow: inside history.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2010.
F /AMIS
Amis, Martin, 1949House of meetings.
F /AMIS
Amis, Martin, 1949The pregnant widow: inside history.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2010.
F /AMIS
Archer, Jeffrey.
The gospel according to Judas
F /ARCH
Barnes, Julian.
Pulse
F /BARN
Barnes, Julian.
The sense of an ending.
F /BARN
Barnes, Julian, 1946The lemon table.
London: Random House, 2004.
F /BARN
FPB /SHORT STORY/B
Barnes, Julian, 1946Arthur & George.
F /BARN
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
Murphy
London: Calder, 1993.
FPB /CLASSIC/B
Blincoe, Nicholas.
Burning Paris.
FPB /WORLD/B
Brookner, Anita.
The rules of engagement.
London: Viking, 2003.
F /BROO
Brookner, Anita.
Leaving home
FPB /B
Brookner, Anita.
Strangers
London: Fig Tree, 2009.
F /BROO
Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993.
A clockwork orange
London: Penguin Books, 1996.
F /BURG
FPB /CLASSIC/B
Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993.
The kingdom of the wicked.
F /BURG
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936A whistling woman.
General Note: Fourth novel in the quartet that
began with The virgin in the garden, Still life
and Babel Tower.
F /BYAT
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936The children's book
F /BYAT
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936Ragnarok: the end of gods
F /BYAT
FPB /B
Greene, Graham, 1904-1991.
No man's land
London: Hesperus, c2005.
FPB /CLASSIC/G
Fleming, Ian, 1908-1964.
Quantum of solace: the complete James Bond
short stories.
FPB /THRILLER
Hornby, Nick, 1957A long way down.
F /HORN
Fleming, Ian, 1908-1964.
Octopussy.
F /FLEM
Fowles, John, 1926-2005.
The Magus: a revised edition.
London: Cape, 1977.
F /FOWL
The collector.
London: Cape, 1979.
F /FOWL
The French lieutenant's woman.
London: Cape, 1969.
F /FOWL
Garland, Alex, 1970The coma
F /GARL
Gibbons, Stella, 1902-1989.
Nightingale Wood
London: Virago, 2009.
FPB /G
Cold comfort farm.
F /GIBB
Christmas at Cold Comfort farm.
FPB /G
The power and the glory.
New York: Penguin, 2003.
F /GREE
FPB /CLASSIC/G
Hornby, Nick, 1957Slam
YA /HORN
Hornby, Nick, 1957Juliet, naked
FPB /H
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955Scorpia rising.
London: Walker Books, 2011.
YA /HORO
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955The house of silk
F /HORO
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.
Brave new world revisited
FPB /CLASSIC/H
James, P. D.
The lighthouse.
London: Faber and Faber, 2005.
F /JAME
James, P. D.
The private patient
F /JAME
James, P. D.
Death comes to Pemberley
F /JAME
Lodge, David, 1935Thinks.
London: Secker & Warburg, 2001.
F /LODG
Lodge, David, 1935Author, author.
London: Secker & Warburg, 2004.
F /LODG
Rushdie, Salman.
Luka and the Fire of Life
F /RUSH
Lodge, David, 1935Deaf sentence
F /LODG
Sharpe, Tom, 1928Wilt in nowhere.
F /SHAR
Lodge, David, 1935A man of parts
F /LODG
Swift, Graham, 1949Tomorrow
London: Picador 2007.
F /SWIF
Murdoch, Iris, 1919-1999.
The green knight.
F /MURD
Swift, Graham, 1949Wish you were here.
F /SWIF
Something special.
F /MURD
Toibin, Colm, 1955The master.
F /TOIB
Jackson's dilemma.
F /MURD
Toibin, Colm, 1955Mothers and sons
Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2006.
F /TOIB
Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhur Surajprasad), 1932Among the believers: an Islamic journey.
956/NAI
Toibin, Colm, 1955Brooklyn
F /TOIB
FPB /T
Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhur Surajprasad), 1932Magic seeds.
F /NAIP
Toibin, Colm, 1955The empty family: stories.
F /TOIB
Rathbone, Julian, 1935A very English agent.
FPB /HISTORICAL/R
Unsworth, Barry.
Land of marvels.
New York: Nan A. Talese, 2009.
F /UNSW
Rendell, Ruth, 1930Tigerlily's orchids.
F /REND
Unsworth, Barry.
The quality of mercy.
F /UNSW
Rendell, Ruth, 1930The vault.
F /REND
Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966.
A handful of dust.
F /WAUG
FPB /CLASSIC/W
Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966.
Brideshead revisited.
Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin Books, 2009.
FPB /CLASSIC/W
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.
The collector's book of science fiction by H.G.
Wells.
N.J.: Castle books, 1979.
F /WELL
The country of the blind
NFPB /LITERATURE
Time machine; The invisible man ; and, The
war of the worlds
New York: Everyman's Library, 2010.
F /WELL
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959Lighthousekeeping.
F /WINT
FPB /W
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959Weight.
FPB /W
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959The stone gods.
Melbourne: Hamish Hamilton, 2007.
F /WINT
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959The battle of the sun.
YA /WINT
Witting, Amy, 1918-2001.
Maria's war.
Ringwood, Vic: Viking, 1998.
F /WITT
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
Mrs Dalloway; and, A room of one's own.
Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2010.
F /WOOL
Orlando: a biography
F /WOOL
Non-Fiction and Biography:
Amis, Martin, 1949The second plane: September 11: 2001-2007
973.931/AMI
Barnes, Julian, 1946Nothing to be frightened of.
828.914/BAR
I can't go on, I'll go on: a selection from
Samuel Beckett's work
New York: Grove, 1991.
828.914/BEC
Waiting for Godot: a tragicomedy in two acts
822.91/BEC
Bowker, Gordon.
James Joyce: a biography.
823.912/JOY
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985.
Lawrence and the Arabs
New York: Paragon House, 1991, c1955.
940.415/GRA
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985.
The white goddess: a historical grammar of
poetic myth.
Manchester, UK: Faber and Faber, 1999.
291/GRA
The lawless roads
New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
NFPB /TRAVEL
Journey without maps
New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
NFPB /TRAVEL
Graham Greene: a life in letters
823.912/GRE
Heaney, Seamus.
Human chain
821.914/HEA
Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008.
The Caretaker: Pinter: plays.
Faber Paperbacks, 1991.
822.914/PIN
Heaney, Seamus, 1939District and circle
821/HEA
Stoppard, Tom, 1937Arcadia.
822.914/STO
Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.
Letters of Ted Hughes / selected and edited
by Christopher Reid.
821.914/HUG
920/HUG
Stoppard, Tom, 1937Plays one
822.914/STO
Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.
River
821.914/HUG
Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.
Remains of Elmet
821.914/HUG
Jacobs, Alan, 1958The Narnian : the life and imagination of C.S.
Lewis
San Francisco: Harper SanFrancisco, 2005.
823/LEW
O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964.
Three Dublin plays
822.912/OCA
Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
George Orwell: a life in letters: selected and
annotated by Peter Davison.
823.91/ORW
Homage to Catalonia; and, Down and out in
Paris and London.
Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2010.
920/ORW
Some thoughts on the common toad.
London: Penguin Books, 2010.
NFPB /LITERATURE
Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953.
The Dylan Thomas omnibus
London: Dent, 1995.
828.912/THO
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959Why be happy when you could be normal?
823.92/WIN
Hyde Park Gate News: the Stephen family
newspaper
London: Hesperus Press, 2005.
828.91/WOO
Fry, Stephen, 1957Moab is my washpot.
London: Arrow Books, 2004.
792.092/FRY
Fry, Stephen, 1957The Fry chronicles
792.7/FRY
James, P. D.
Talking about detective fiction.
808.3872/JAM
Lodge, David, 1935Scenes of academic life
NFPB /LITERATURE
Swift, Graham, 1949Making an elephant: writing from within.
828.914/SWI
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The Crime Writers‘ Association‘s prestigious Diamond Dagger recipient is chosen each year
by the CWA committee, from a shortlist nominated by the membership. It is very much an
honour awarded by the author‘s peers and this makes it special. Shortlisted authors must
meet two essential criteria: first, their careers must be marked by sustained excellence, and
second, they must have made a significant contribution to crime fiction published in the
English language, whether originally or in translation. The award is made purely on merit
without reference to age, gender or nationality.
2011 The Diamond Dagger, awarded for sustained excellence in crime writing, was presented
to bestselling historical author Lindsey Davis. Davis is the creator of the well-loved ancient
Roman private eye Marcus Didius Falco, and widely recognised as the godmother of the
historical crime genre. Lindsey Davis‘s website is at www.lindseydavis.co.uk. Manly Library
holds a number of Davis‘ books, including Alexandria, Nemesis, Rebels and Traitors, and
Saturnalia at F/DAVI
2011 CWA Gold Dagger was awarded to Tom Franklin for Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Franklin, Tom. Crooked letter, crooked letter. F /FRAN
Amos, Mississippi, is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole law
enforcement officer. The last excitement here was nearly twenty
years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott,
Silas‘s one-time boyhood friend. The law couldn't prove Larry guilty,
but the whole town has shunned him ever since. Then the town's
peace is shattered when someone tries to kill the reclusive Ott,
another young woman goes missing, and the town‘s drug dealer is
murdered. Woven through the tautly written murder story is the
unspoken secret that hangs over the lives of two men - one black,
one white.
Miller, Andrew. Snowdrops. F /MILL FPB /WORLD/M
Snowdrops is an intensely riveting psychological drama that unfolds
over the course of one Moscow winter, as a young Englishman‘s
moral compass is spun by the seductive opportunities revealed to him
by a new Russia: a land of hedonism and desperation, corruption and
kindness, magical dachas and debauched nightclubs; a place where
secrets – and corpses – come to light only when the deep snows start
to thaw….
Mina, Denise. The end of the wasp season. F /MINA
When notorious millionaire banker Lars Anderson hangs himself from
the old oak tree in front of his Kent mansion his death attracts no
sympathy. One less shark is little loss to a world nursing a financial
hangover. But the legacy of a life time of self-serving is widespread,
the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his
family. He leaves behind two deeply damaged children and a broken
wife.
Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found
savagely murdered in her home. The genteel community is stunned
by what appears a vicious, random attack. When DS Alex Morrow,
heavily pregnant with twins, is called in to investigate, she soon
discovers that behind the murder lurks a tangled web of lies. A web
that will spiral through the local community, through Scotland and
ultimately right back to a swinging rope hundreds of miles away.
2011 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
The broadest definition of the thriller novel is used for books eligible for this Dagger; these can
be set in any period and include, but are not limited to, spy fiction and/or action/ adventure
stories. Ian Fleming said there was one essential criterion for a good thriller - that ‗one simply
has to turn the page‘.
Hamilton, Steve. The lock artist.
F /HAMI
Michael survived the terrible incident that took his parents. But
although his escape was miraculous, it left him unable to speak.
Taunted as a freak, school becomes a fresh nightmare, until Michael
discovers he has a special talent that makes people sit up and take
notice: he can open locks.
A teenage prank burgling the house of a rival school‘s quarterback
lands him in hot water and, despite his best intentions, Michael soon
finds himself on a downward slope that ends with expert instruction
on how to open safes. And unless he agrees to put his newfound
skills to use, the mob are going to kill the father of the girl he now
loves. So begins an extraordinary life of crime - at once terrifying and
exhilarating.
The Lock Artist was also shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and
has won an Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America, for the best
novel of 2011.
Gruber, Michael The Good Son
A SON Once a child warrior in the mujhadeen‘s struggle against the
Soviets, once a Delta Force soldier, now a covert operative in the
USA‘s secret War Against Terror in Pakistan. His name is legend
among the tribes of Pashtun.
A MOTHER Held hostage in the mountain fastness of North West
Pakistan. With a long-standing fatwah hanging over her, her
execution is a certainty. She knows she can‘t out-fight her captors,
but can she out-think them?
A FAMILY Prepared to do whatever it takes to protect its own,
whatever the cost, even if it means unleashing a nightmare that could
engulf the world in flames. THE GOOD SON A provocative, highstakes thriller that moves from the subterranean corridors of
Washington DC to the backstreets of Lahore to the high mountains of
the Hindu Kush, tackling the collision of Islam and the West head on
with a high-octane mixture of CIA and NSA tradecraft, Sharia law and
Sufi mysticism.
Other books by Michael Gruber at Manly Library include:
The book of air and shadows
F /GRUB
Forgery of Venus.
FPB /THRILLER
Valley of bones.
F /GRUB
2011 CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award
This award is made in memory of CWA founder John Creasey, for first books by previously
unpublished writers. The CWA Dagger Awards are the longest established literary awards in the
UK and are internationally recognised as a mark of excellence and achievement.
Watson, S. J. Before I go to sleep.
F /WATS
Rooted in the workings of memory, Before I Go To Sleep is
all the more frightening for its authenticity as Watson based
his protagonist‘s terrifying predicament on a factual medical
condition. ‗As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did
today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking
I‘m still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice
ahead of me …‘
The book was also in the running for the Ian Fleming Steel
Dagger, and the film rights have already been bagged by
Ridley Scott.
Fitzgerald, Conor. The dogs of Rome: an Alec Blume novel
F /FITZ
Alec Blume, is a Chief Inspector in the Roman police, yet is
fated to be a constant foreigner, a constant observer. Like
many a hard-boiled detective/ sheriff/ western hero, he will
negotiate his own moral course, but not without mistakes and
doubts. Alec Blume is called on to investigate the atrocious
killing of an animals‘ rights activist during the hottest days of
the summer. The victim is also the husband of an important
Italian politician, and Blume is reminded that even a murder
inquiry has to follow the lines of political convenience.
2011 CWA International Dagger
The CWA International Dagger is a competition for crime, thriller, suspense or spy fiction novels
which have been translated into English from their original language, for UK publication. The
2011 winners are Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström with Three Seconds, and translated
from the Swedish by Kari Dickson.
Roslund, Anders. Three seconds
F /ROSL
Piet Hoffmann is the best undercover operative in the Swedish
police force, but only one other man is even aware of his
existence. After a drug deal he is involved in goes badly wrong,
he must face the hardest mission of his life – infiltrating
Sweden‘s most infamous maximum-security prison. Detective
Inspector Ewert Grens is charged with investigating the drugrelated killing. Unaware of Hoffmann‘s real identity, he believes
himself to be on the trail of a dangerous psychopath. But he
cannot escape the feeling that vital information pertaining to the
case has been withheld or manipulated.
Varesi, Valerio. River of shadows.
F /VARE
Introducing Commissario Soneri, a highly original, complex
creation, in a brooding and evocative crime novel set in the Po
valley.Rain falls relentlessly on the Po valley in northern Italy,
and the river is swollen to its limits. A huge barge leaves its
moorings, steering an erratic course downstream and away into
the foggy night. When finally it runs aground hours later, the
bargeman is nowhere to be found. Commissario Soneri is
summoned to investigate the apparent suicide of a man in
nearby Parma. He and the bargeman were brothers, and when
the detective discovers that they served together in the fascist
militia fifty years earlier, the incidents seem likely to be linked.
Vargas, Fred. An uncertain place
F /VARG
Commissaire Adamsberg leaves Paris for a three-day
conference in London. With him are a young sergeant, Estalère,
and Commandant Danglard, who is terrified at the idea of
travelling beneath the Channel. It is the break they all need,
until a macabre and brutal case comes to the attention of their
colleague Radstock from New Scotland Yard. Just outside the
baroque and romantic old Highgate cemetery a pile of shoes is
found. Not so strange in itself, but the shoes contain severed
feet.
Villar, Domingo. Death on a Galician shore
F /VILL
One misty autumn morning in a quiet fishing port in northwest
Spain, the body of a drowned sailor, his hands tied, washes up
in the harbour. Detective Inspector Leo Caldas is called in from
police headquarters in the nearby city of Vigo to sign off on
what appears to be a suicide. But details soon come to light that
turn this routine matter into a complex murder investigation.
Finding out the truth is not easy when the villagers are so
suspicious of outsiders and sparing with their words. As Caldas
delves into the maritime life of the village, he uncovers a
Currently in
disturbing decade-old case of a shipwreck and two mysterious
processing
disappearances.
2011 CWA Non-Fiction Gold Dagger
The CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction is a competition for any non-fiction work on a real-life
crime theme or a closely-related subject by an author of any nationality, as long as the book
was first published in the UK in English. The 2011 winner is Douglas Starr for The Killer of
Little Shepherds.
Starr, Douglas Perret The killer of little shepherds: a true crime
story and the birth of forensic science. 364.1523/VAC
At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph
Vacher, dubbed ―The Killer of Little Shepherds,‖ terrorised the
French countryside. He eluded authorities for years - until he
ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre
Lacassagne, the era‘s most renowned criminologist. The two
men typified the Belle Epoque, a period of immense scientific
achievement and fascination with its promise to reveal the
secrets of the human condition.
Currently in
processing
Flanders, Judith. The invention of murder: how the Victorians
revelled in death and detection and created modern crime.
364.1523/FLA
Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation
and entertainment began and became ubiquitous – transformed
into novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and
melodrama and opera – even into puppet shows and
performing dog-acts. Flanders retells the gruesome stories of
many different types of murder – both famous and obscure.
From the crimes (and myths) of Sweeny Todd and Jack the
Ripper, to the tragedies of the murdered Marr family in
London‘s East End, Burke and Hare and their bodysnatching
business in Edinburgh, to Greenacre who transported his
dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus.
Rideau, Wilbert. In the place of justice: a story of punishment
and deliverance.
365.6092 22/RIDE
In 1961, young, black, eighth-grade dropout Wilbert Rideau
despaired of his small-town future in the segregated deep south
of America. He set out to rob the local bank and after a bungled
robbery he killed the bank teller, a fifty-year-old white female.
He was arrested and gave a full confession. When we meet
Rideau he has just been sentenced to death row, from where
he embarks on an extraordinary journey. He is imprisoned at
Angola, the most violent prison in America, where brutality,
sexual slavery and local politics confine prisoners in ways that
bars alone cannot.
Capuzzo, Mike. The murder room: in which three of the greatest
detectives use forensic science to solve the world's most
perplexing cold cases.
363.25/CAP
Three of the world‘s greatest detectives – a renowned former
FBI agent, a forensic sculptor and an eccentric profiler known
as ‗the living Sherlock Holmes‘ – were distraught at the growing
tide of unsolved murders. And so William Fleisher, Frank
Bender and Richard Walter pledged themselves to a quest for
justice . . . They invited the finest collection of forensic minds
ever assembled, drawn from five continents, to bring the coldest
killers in the world to account.
Colquhoun, Kate. Mr Briggs' hat: a sensational account of
Britain's first railway murder.
364.1523/BRI
In July 1864, Thomas Briggs was travelling home after visiting
his niece and her husband for dinner. He entered a First Class
carriage on the 9.45pm Hackney service of the North London
railway. At Hackney, two bank clerks entered the carriage and
discovered blood in the seat cushions; also on the floor,
windows and sides of the carriage. A bloodstained hat was
found on the seat along with a broken link from a watch chain.
The race to identify the killer and catch him as he flees on a
boat to America was eagerly followed by citizens both sides of
the Atlantic.
The CWA Dagger in the Library authors are nominated by UK libraries and Readers‘ Groups
and judged by a panel of librarians, all of whom work with the public. The Dagger is awarded to
an author for a body of work, rather than a single title.
Mo Hayder is winner of the 2011 CWA Dagger in the Library.
The judges praised her ―Twisting, hard-hitting crime novels with
a haunting emotional pull on the reader‖, adding ―Damaged
detective Jack Caffery and police diver Flea Marley are one of
the best pairings in current crime writing with each story leaving
fans clamouring for more.‖
Her web site is www.mohayder.net
Some of her books held at Manly Library are:
Pig Island.
F /HAYD
Ritual.
F /HAYD
Tokyo.
F /HAYD
FPB /THRILLER
Gone.
F /HAYD
Hanging Hill.
F /HAYD
S.J. Bolton was also nominated
Judges said her books are ‗Fast-paced, lurid page turners that
you simply can‘t put down. Splendidly warped and macabre
stories with larger than life characters that grip and don't let go
till the end.‘
Blood Harvest was shortlisted for the 2010 CWA Gold Dagger.
Her website is www.sjbolton.com.
Manly Library holds :
Dead scared
just published and is on order
Awakening
F /BOLT
Blood harvest
F /BOLT
Now you see me
also on order
R.J. Ellory was also nominated
Judges said: ‗He writes American style fiction better than the
Americans, with each one different from the last. A master at
creating whole new casts of characters and engaging the
reader's emotions in the story. ‘
His web site is www.rjellory.com
Manly Library holds:
The anniversary man.
F /ELLO
Bad signs
F /ELLO
Saints of New York.
F /ELLO
A simple act of violence
F /ELLO
A dark and broken heart
is on order
Jason Goodwin was also nominated
Judges‘ said ‗Yashim the Eunuch is a great new addition to the
pool of crime fiction detectives, and one who will inspire great
affection in readers. The historical setting springs to life almost
as another character and the stories are well plotted and
satisfying reads.‘
His website is www.jasongoodwin.net
Some of his books held at Manly Library include:
The Bellini card.
F /GOOD
An evil eye: a novel.
F /GOOD
The snake stone.
F /GOOD
Susan Hill was also nomiated
Judges said ‗Beautifully written, lyrical tales following not just
the detective but his family and immediate circle as well. Each
book leaves the reader better aquainted with her beguiling
world and less and less willing to leave it. ‘
Her website is www.susan-hill.com
Some of her books at manly Library include:
A kind man.
F /HILL
The shadows in the street.
F /HILL
The risk of darkness: a Simon Serrailler crime novel. F /HILL
The betrayal of trust
F /HILL
A kind man.
F /HILL
Philip Kerr, another popular crime writer
Judges‘ said ‗Bernie Gunther is the original hard-boiled cop; his
time in the SS makes him a somewhat morally ambiguous but
likeable character which adds an extra dimension to some
intricately plotted stories. The historical details are meticulously
researched. ‘
His website is www.philipkerr.org
Some of Philip Kerr‘s books at Manly Library:
Field gray.
F /KERR
Field grey: a Bernie Gunther novel
F /KERR
If the dead rise not.
F /KERR
Prague fatale
F /KERR
A quiet flame.
F /KERR
2011 CWA Ellis Peters Award (Historical)
Martin, Andrew. The Somme stations
F /MART
The Somme Stations, plunges into the horrors of World War
One trench combat. Stringer and his unit must undertake
dangerous nocturnal assignments: driving the trains taking
munitions to the front. Death is everywhere, as the trains travel
through blasted surrealistic landscapes, and a single-minded
military policeman continues to investigate a killing that occurred
before the departure for France.
Clements, Rory. Prince.
F /CLEM
Rory Clements won the Ellis Peters award last year for
Revenger, the second instalment in his John Shakespeare
series. Prince is the third book to feature this Elizabethan
intelligencer, and finds Shakespeare caught up in the infighting
between the Queen‘s rival favourites, Robert Cecil and Lord
Essex, as he investigates a series of bombings targeting Dutch
immigrants in London.
Eastland, Sam. The red coffin.
F /EAST
Sam Eastland‘s second novel sees the return of the brilliant
special investigator Inspector Pekkala, once the trusted advisor
of Tsar Nicholas II, now forced to work for Stalin. It is 1939 and
rogue Russian soldiers are trying to precipitate war with
Germany before Stalin‘s secret weapon is ready — a super tank
known as the ―red coffin‖. This manages to be a superbly
entertaining thriller while fully conveying the horrors of life under
Stalin.
Ferris, Gordon. The hanging shed.
F /FERR
The Hanging Shed was a massive success even before its print
incarnation hit the bookshops, when it became one of the most
downloaded books in Britain after being released on the
Amazon Kindle. The setting is Glasgow in 1946, and the
author‘s delineation of the immediate post-war years has a
bristling immediacy. Ferris‘s protagonist Brodie is an expoliceman, forced to save a childhood friend from hanging via a
daunting odyssey through the dangerous backstreets of the
Gorbals, obstructed by both bent coppers and murderous razor
gangs.
Morris, R. N. The cleansing flames
F /MORR
Reading this splendid fourth entry in the RN Morris sequence of
riffs on the detective Porfiry from Dostoevsky‘s Crime and
Punishment is a bittersweet experience, as Morris is about to put
the character on hold. In the new book, St Petersburg is in
flames, and the fires are harbingers of the revolution that will
tear the country apart. After a post-winter thaw, a body surfaces
in a canal, and Porfiry is in business again. As before, character
building, locale, and historical detail are all beautifully balanced..
Robertson, Imogen. Island of bones.
F /ROBE
This is Imogen Robertson‘s third novel to feature her wilful
heroine Mrs Harriet Westerman and gives us some background
to her sleuthing sidekick, the eccentric and reclusive amateur
anatomist Gabriel Crowther, as the duo head to the Lake District
to investigate when one corpse too many is found in the
ancestral tomb at Gabriel‘s family seat. Robertson expertly
juggles family politics, murder mystery and kidnap thriller, while
giving a fascinating picture of country life in the late 18th
century.
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Life stories
will be on Wednesday 12 September at 6 pm &
Thursday 13 September at 10.30am
Life stories include autobiography, memoir, travel and sojourn writing, narrative
non-fiction, biography and even the personal essay. Life stories are inclusive –
they give you the opportunity to be a fly on the wall and explore other people’s
lives, places and relationships.
Memoir and autobiography are not just straightforward historical records or
exercises in self-justification, but are true journeys of exploration, exciting and
sometimes confronting. There is joy and revelation and the creative struggle to
find the words to do justice to their experience.
Abad Faciolince, Hector Joaquin.
Oblivion: a memoir
Summary: "An account of the author's father:
a Colombian doctor who fought against
oppression and social inequality and who was
murdered by paramilitaries in 1987"-868.64/ABA
Abdelnour, Salma.
Jasmine and fire: a bittersweet year in Beirut.
Sydney: HarperCollins Publishers, 2012.
Summary: 'In a way, food has always been my
road home. The Beirut scenes I remember
most vividly from childhood are of hanging out
for hours over fragrant platters of juicy
chargrilled meats and just-caught seafood,
piping-hot loaves of fresh pita, and pistachiotopped pastries oozing with cream and honey
and orange-blossom syrup..' Salma Abdelnour
was just nine years old when, in July 1981, as
bombs exploded around them, she and her
family fled the bloody civil war in Lebanon for
a quiet, safe new life in surburban America.
Now, thirty years later, she returns to the
place where she hopes to never feel like a
stranger. In Jasmine and Fire, Abdelnour
shares her intimate journey of rediscovery as
she explores today's Beirut, one of the world's
most hauntingly beautiful, dynamic and
troubled cities, and of witnessing up close a
year of dramatic changes in the Middle East
and the rise of the Arab Spring. Against a
backdrop of turmoil and uncertainty, she takes
comfort in some of Beirut's enduring traditions,
especially its legendary love of food. Through
rediscovering the favourite dishes of her
childhood, she slowly begins to find her way
home and a new sense of belonging. Like the
best Lebanese meal, this unforgettable love
letter to a fascinating city full of beauty,
tragedy and hope will leave you wanting more.
956.92/ABE
Albright, Madeleine Korbel, 1937Prague winter: a personal story of
remembrance and war, 1937-1948.
New York: Harper, 2012.
943.71/ALB
Ayres, Pam, 1947The necessary aptitude: a memoir.
London: Ebury, 2011.
920/AYR
Bauer, Graham.
Australian story: stories of courage,
determination and love.
Sydney: ABC Books, 2012.
920/BAU
Blumenthal, Karen.
Steve Jobs: the man who thought different: a
biography.
337.76/JOB
Brody, Leslie.
Irrepressible: the life and times of Jessica
Mitford.
Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint Press, 2010.
Summary: Follows the life of a young British
aristocrat who severed ties with her family and
moved to the United States to work as a civil
rights activist, a Communist organizer, and a
writer.
920/MIT
Busch, Benjamin.
Dust to dust: a memoir.
New York, NY: Ecco: HarperCollins, 2012.
Summary: A U.S. Marine who served two
combat tours in Iraq, an actor on "The Wire,"
and son of novelist Frederick Busch reflects
on his childhood in rural New York, his
experiences as a Marine, and the nature of
mortality.
920/BUS
Cascio, Frank.
My friend Michael : an ordinary friendship with
an extraordinary man
Summary: The music legend's close friend for
more than twenty-five years offers a personal
behind-the-scenes look at Michael Jackson,
setting the record straight on Jackson's
misunderstood Peter Pan reality and his
complex lifestyle.
780.42/JAC
Clarke, Robert.
Seven years with Banksy
London: Michael O'Mara, 2012.
Summary: This is an illuminating memoir of
the world's most celebrated graffiti artist,
offering an insight into his life and work
through the experiences that he and the
author Robert Clarke shared together during
Banksy's formative years. Clarke takes us
through his first encounters with Banksy,
which took place in a hotel in New York in the
1990s.
751.73/BAN
Collins, Joan, 1933The world according to Joan.
London: Constable, 2011.
791.43/COL
Crumpton, Henry A.
The art of intelligence: lessons from a life in
the CIA's clandestine service.
Summary: A counterterrorism spy describes
his leadership of the campaign that routed al
Qaeda and the Taliban in the weeks after the
September 11 attacks, offering insight into the
ways in which the Afghanistan campaign
changed American warfare.
327.1273/CRU
Dodson, James.
American triumvirate: Sam Snead, Byron
Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the modern age of
golf.
New York: Alfred. A. Knopf, 2012.
796.352/DOD
Dratch, Rachel.
Girl walks into a bar--: comedy calamities,
dating disasters, and a midlife miracle.
New York: Gotham Books, 2012.
792.7/DRA
Eliot, Marc.
Steve McQueen: a biography.
New York: Crown Archetype, 2011.
791.43/MACQ
Feldman, Deborah, 1986Unorthodox: the scandalous rejection of my
Hasidic roots.
Summary: Traces the author's upbringing in a
Hasidic community in Brooklyn, describing the
strict rules that governed her life, arranged
marriage at the age of seventeen, and the
birth of her son, which led to her plan to leave
and forge her own path in life.
920/FEL
Field, Anthony.
How I got my wiggle back: the remarkable
health and fitness regiment that turned my life
around
Sydney, N.S.W.: ABC Books, 2012.
Summary: Part memoir, part fitness and health
manual, How I Got My Wiggle Back chronicles
the life of internationally acclaimed children’s
entertainer Anthony Field, and details his
remarkable victory in a 25-year battle with
illness and injury.
615.85/FIE
Garner, James, 1928The Garner files
791.43/GAR
Greenfield, Robert.
The last sultan: the life and times of Ahmet
Ertegun.
781.64/ERT
Halpern, Justin
I suck at girls.
New York: It! books, 2012.
814.6/HAL
Heiss, Anita, 1968Am I black enough for you?
North Sydney, N.S.W.: Bantam, 2012.
305.89915/HEI
Jovanovic, Rob.
Seeing the light: inside the Velvet
Underground.
New York: St. Martin's press, 2012.
780.42/VEL
Kantor, Jodi, 1975The Obamas.
New York: Little Brown and Company, 2012.
973.932/OBA
Kellow, Brian.
Pauline Kael: a life in the dark.
New York : Viking, 2011.
Summary: In her nearly quarter-century (19681991) reviewing films at The New Yorker,
Pauline Kael became the most widely read,
the most influential, the most powerful, and,
often enough, the most provocative critic in
America. Her passionate engagement with the
work of a new generation of artists--and her
ability to share her enthusiasm with a fresh,
vernacular, and confrontational style--changed
the face of film criticism. On the tenth
anniversary of her death comes the first fullscale biography: author Brian Kellow has
interviewed family members, friends,
colleagues, and adversaries and written a
detailed portrait of this remarkable, often
relentlessly driven woman. Kellow examines
the controversy Kael generated by
overstepping what many considered the
boundaries of critical propriety. He follows her
successes as well as her battles. For anyone
who loves film or is concerned about the role
of criticism in the arts, this book is a revelatory
biography of one of the most influential
women of the past half century.
791.43/KAE
MacLauchlin, Cory.
Butterfly in the typewriter: the tragic life of
John Kennedy Toole and the remarkable story
of A confederacy of dunces.
New York: Da Capo Press, 2012.
813.54/MACL
Large, Storm.
Crazy enough: a memoir.
North Sydney, N.S.W.: Ebury Press, 2012.
780.42/LAR
Nielsen, Sally, 1986Sammy, I love you: a true story of love and
hope.
Summary: As seen on ABC TV's Australian
Story Sally Nielsen is a wedding planner,
whose own wedding plans were turned upside
down when her fiance suffered a catastrophic
stroke, leaving him completely dependent on
her and his family for all his needs. When
others said she should put him in a home and
get on with her life, Sally refused.
362.196/NIE
Milligan, Spike, 1918-2002.
Milligan's meaning of life: an autobiography of
sorts.
Summary: With his lightning-quick wit,
unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd,
Milligan revolutionised British comedy, leaving
a legacy of influence that stretches from
Lancaster, Jen.
Monty Python's "Flying Circus" to the work of
Jeneration X: ne reluctant adult's attempt to
unarrest her arrested development, or why it's self-confessed acolytes such as Eddie Izzard
and Stephen Fry today. This is his
never too late for her dumb ass to learn why
autobiography.
froot loops are not for dinner.
791.457/MIL
New York: New American Library, 2012.
814.6/LAN
Mould, Bob, 1960See a little light: the trail of rage and melody
Lanzmann, Claude.
Boston, Mass.; London: Little, Brown, 2011.
The patagonian hare: a memoir
Summary: The musician behind the groundNew York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Summary: The author traces his life in film and breaking punk band Hüsker Dü describes his
early passion for music; reveals his struggles
journalism, describing his early experiences
as an underground soldier in occupied Paris, with homosexuality and drug and alcohol
addiction; and discusses his solo career and
his affair with Simone de Beauvoir, and the
founding of the band Sugar.
making of his seminal documentary Shoah.
780.42/MOU
791.43/LAN
Lawson, Jenny.
Let's pretend this never happened: (a mostly
true memoir)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2012.
070.92/LAW
Long, Martha.
Ma, I've got meself locked up in the
madhouse.
Edinburgh: Mainstream Pub., 2011.
920/LON
Niemi, Lisa.
Worth fighting for: love, loss, and moving
forward.
Louvin, Charlie, 1927-2011
Satan is real: the ballad of the Louvin brothers 791.43/SWA
New York: ItBooks, c2012.
Orgias, Glenn.
780.42/LOU
Man in a grey suit
Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin Group, 2012.
797.32/ORG
Parkes, Ian, 1934A youth not wasted.
Sydney: Fourth Estate, 2012.
636/PAR
Rhodes, Richard, 1937Hedy's folly: the life and breakthrough
inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful
woman in the world.
791.43/LAM
Sheen, Martin.
Along the way the journey of a father and son
Summary: Spanning nearly 50 years of family
history, the book chronicles the remarkable
lives of two creative talents, Martin Sheen and
Emilio Estevez. It's a story of father and son
set against the backdrop of Hollywood; this
narrative is organized around their physical
and spiritual journey along the Camino de
Santiago, Spain.
791.43/SHE
Shields, Charles J., 1951And so it goes: Kurt Vonnegut: a life.
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2011.
813.54/VON
Slakey, Francis.
To the last breath: a memoir of going to
extremes.
Summary: A Georgetown University physics
professor describes the rigidly scheduled and
isolated existence he led before embarking on
a life-risking effort to climb the world's highest
mountains and surf every ocean.
796.522/SLA
Smith, Claire Bidwell.
The rules of inheritance: a memoir.
Melbourne: Text Pub., 2012.
Summary: Claire Bidwell Smith, a fourteenyear-old only child, learns that both her
parents have cancer. The fear of becoming a
family of one compels her to make a series of
fraught choices, set against the glittering
backdrop of New York and Los Angeles - and
the pall of regret. When the inevitable
happens and Claire is alone in the world, she
is inconsolable at the revelation that suddenly
she is no one's special person. It is only later,
when Claire falls in love, marries and
becomes a mother, that she emerges from the
fog of grief. Using the five stages of grief as a
window onto her personal experience, Claire
Bidwell Smith has written a powerful memoir
that is at once exquisite and profound.
616.994/SMI
Strayed, Cheryl.
Wild: a journey from lost to found.
813.6/STR
Taylor, Tony, 1928Fishing the river of time.
Melbourne, Vic.: Text Pub., 2012.
Fishing the River of Time is an elegant
meditation on nature, life and family, written
with warmth and wisdom. It inspires selfreflection and an appreciation of the natural
world and the fundamentals of our human
experience. It is destined to become a classic
work of simple living after Henry David
Thoreau's Walden.
799.1/TAY
Thornton, Billy Bob.
The Billy Bob tapes: a cave full of ghosts
791.43/THO
Webster, Andrew.
Supercoach: the life and times of Jack Gibson.
796.333/GIB
Wilkins, Richard.
Black ties, red carpets, green rooms
Sydney: New Holland, 2011.
791.45/WIL
Williams, Kate, 1974Young Elizabeth: the making of our queen.
Summary: We can hardly imagine a Britain
without Elizabeth II on the throne. It seems to
be the job she was born for. And yet, for much
of her early life, the young princess did not
know the role that her future would hold.
929.72/ELI
Coming soon to Manly Library
Anderson, Kristian
Days like these
Sydney, N.S.W.: HarperCollins, 2012.
Summary: The love story of Kristian and
Rachel Anderson. When Kristian wanted to
show his wife Rachel how much he loved her
after learning he was terminally ill, he ended
up winning hearts around the world, thanks to
the now famous YouTube video he made for
her 35th birthday.
616.994/AND
Black, Dasia.
Letter from my father.
[Blackheath, N.S.W.]: Brandl & Schlesinger,
2012.
Summary: Ester was a four-year-old child
during the Holocaust in Poland when she was
told that both her parents had been killed. In
'Letter from my father' Dasia Black (born Ester
Hadasa) tells of her struggle as a child to
survive the loss of her family, her name and
identity.
940.5318/BLA
Chidgey, Jane
Under the baobab tree: a memoir of two great
loves.
Sydney: ABC Books, 2012.
Summary: From Melbourne career woman to
'Lady of the Lodge' in Africa . A heartwarming
memoir about having the courage to follow
love and change your life, no matter what your
age.
920/CHI
Hjortsberg, William, 1941Jubilee hitchhiker: the life and times of
Richard Brautigan.
Berkeley, CA: Counter Point, 2012.
813.54/BRA
Kranish, Michael.
The real Romney
Summary: From the investigative reporters
who have tracked his career for years comes
a riveting, no-holds-barred biography of Mitt
Romney, the early frontrunner for the
Republican nomination for president.
974.4/ROM
Kurlansky, Mark.
Birdseye: the adventures of a curious man.
338.7/BIR
Manguso, Sarah, 1974The guardians: an elegy.
362.28/WUL
Nops, Lisa
My life in a pea soup.
Warriewood, N.S.W.: Finch Publishing, 2012.
616.858/NOP
Sheldrick, Daphne Jenkins, 1934An African love story: love, life and elephants.
599.67/SHE
Choi, Amy
Playing house.
Yarraville, Vic.: Transit Lounge Pub, 2012.
920/CHO
Spence, Simon.
The Stone Roses: the true story
780.42/STO
Farmer, Pat.
Pole to Pole: one man, 20 million steps.
Summary: In a feat that ranks with the brave
and inspiring deeds of Scott of the Antarctic,
Sir Edmund Hillary and Jessica Watson,
famed Australian ultramarathon runner Pat
Farmer did what no human has ever done: run
from the North Pole to South Pole. His
mission: to raise money for the Red Cross to
fund water projects in the world's neediest
regions.
796.425/FAR
Williams, Jenny.
More lives than one: a biography of Hans
Fallada.
833.912/FAL
Wright, Thomas.
Circulation: William Harvey's revolutionary
idea.
920/HAR
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Aw esom e Ad vent ure
will be on Wednesday 10 October at 6 pm &
Thursday 11 October at 10.30am
An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience; it may also be a bold, usually risky
undertaking, with an uncertain outcome. The term is often used to refer to activities with some
potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme
sports. The term also broadly refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with physical,
financial or psychological risk, such as a business venture, a love affair, or other major life
undertakings.
Adventurous experiences create psychological and physiological arousal, which can be
interpreted as negative (e.g. fear) or positive (e.g. flow). For some people, adventure becomes a
major pursuit in and of itself. According to adventurer André Malraux, in his La Condition Humaine
(1933), "If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?". Similarly, Helen Keller stated
that "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
Some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as
Homer's The Odyssey. Mythologist Joseph Campbell discussed his notion of the monomyth in his
book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Campbell proposed that the heroic mythological stories
from culture to culture followed a similar underlying pattern, starting with the "call to adventure",
followed by a hazardous journey, and eventual triumph. The adventure novel exhibits these
"protagonist on adventurous journey" characteristics as do many popular feature films.
Anderson, Mark.
The day the world discovered the sun: An
extraordinary story of scientific adventure and
the race to track the transit of venus.
Boston: Da capo press, c2012.
523.42/AND
Bain, Andrew, 1970A year of adventures: a guide to the world's
most exciting experiences.
Footscray, Vic.; London : Lonely Planet, 2010.
913/LON
Banks, Tony.
Storming the Falklands: my war and after.
997/BAN
Beaumont, Mark, 1983The man who cycled the Americas.
London: Bantam, 2011.
796.64/BEA
Beddoe, Noel.
The Yalda crossing
St Lucia, Qld.: UQP, 2012.
F /BEDD
Booth, Janice Holly.
Only pack what you can carry: my path to
inner strength, confidence, and true selfknowledge.
Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2011.
Summary: Through a series of compelling
travel essays and deeply thoughtful memoirs,
Booth, former CEO of the Girl Scouts Pioneer
Council in North Carolina, draws readers into
each adventure and shares her secrets to a
fuller life through traveling alone.
910.4/BOO
Summary: Real stories can touch our
humanity and move us to understand
ourselves, as well as the person we are
reading about. The adventurers here provide a
mosaic of Australia over the past century, a
priceless legacy.
920/CAR
Chapman, Ann
Women in my rose garden: the history,
romance and adventure of old roses
Melbourne, Vic.: Hardie Grant Books, 2012.
Summary: Many of our best-loved heritage
roses are named after women, and in this
charming book, Ann Chapman explores the
lives and stories behind the evocative names.
We may be familiar with Mary Queen of Scots,
Amy Robsart and Jeanne d.Arc, but who were
Adelaide dOrlans, Nancy Steen and Nur
Mahal?
635.933/CHA
Christopher, Paul.
The Templar throne
New York: Signet, 2010.
F /CHRI
Ciancimino, Massimo, 1963Don Vito: the secret life of the Mayor of the
Corleones
364.106/CIA
Coates, Frank.
Softly calls the Serengeti
Sydney: HarperCollins Australia, 2011.
F /COAT
Crawford, Dean.
Immortal.
Summary: While carrying out an autopsy on a
Box, C. J.
body recently brought into a morgue in Santa
Force of nature
Fe, county coroner Alexis Cruz makes a
surprising discovery. Lodged in the dead
Summary: Having hidden the truth about a
man's femur is a musket ball which, carbon
past colleague's violation, former Special
Forces agent Nate Romanowski is targeted by dating reveals, was fired some 200 years
a determined killer who threatens Joe Pickett's earlier in the American Civil War. But before
she can notify the authorities, Alexis
life as part of a violent plot.
disappears.
F /BOX
F /CRAW
Carroll, Margaret.
The man who loved crocodiles and stories of
other adventurous Australians.
Cussler, Clive, 1931The jungle
F /CUSS
Cussler, Clive, 1931The Kingdom
F /CUSS
Cussler, Clive, 1931The race
F /CUSS
Cussler, Clive, 1931Devil's gate
F /CUSS
Farmer, Pat.
Pole to Pole: one man, 20 million steps.
Summary: In a feat that ranks with the brave
and inspiring deeds of Scott of the Antarctic,
Sir Edmund Hillary and Jessica Watson,
famed Australian ultramarathon runner Pat
Farmer did what no human has ever done: run
from the North Pole to South Pole. His
mission: to raise money for the Red Cross to
fund water projects in the world's neediest
regions.
796.425/FAR
Farquhar, Michael.
Behind the palace doors: five centuries of sex,
adventure, vice, treachery, and folly from royal
Britain.
New York: Random House Paperbacks, 2011.
941/FAR
Davidson, Jim.
The ledge: an adventure story of friendship
and survival on Mount Rainier
796.52/DAV
Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof)
Among the islands.
Melbourne, Vic.: Text Publishing, 2011.
919.6/FLA
Dietrich, William, 1951The emerald storm: an Ethan Gage adventure
New York: Harper, c2012.
F /DIET
Fogle, Ben, 1973The accidental adventurer.
910.92/FOG
Dodd, Mark.
The last pearling lugger: a pearl diver's story.
Summary: Mark Dodd arrived in Broome in
1978 as a 20-year-old looking for adventure.
There he fell in with the crew of the fabled
DMcD, one of the last of the old wooden
pearling luggers that still worked the
Kimberley coast diving for pearl shell. The
Last Pearling Lugger is his extraordinary
memoir of five seasons on the Broome
pearling fleet as a deckhand and diver in the
late 1970s and early 1980s.
639.412/DOD
Garcia Ortega, Adolfo, 1958Desolation Island
London: Harvill, 2011.
F /GARC
Donachie, David, 1944Enemies at every turn
London: Allison & Busby, 2011.
F /DONA
Grant, Richard, 1963Crazy river: a plunge into Africa.
916.78/GRA
Edwards, Hugh, 1933Dead men's silver: the story of Australia's
greatest shipwreck hunter.
Sydney: HarperCollins Australia, 2011.
910.452/EDW
Grylls, Bear.
Mud, sweat and tears.
London: 4 Books, 2011.
796.5/GRY
Gibbins, David.
The gods of Atlantis.
F /GIBB
Giraldi, William.
Busy monsters: a novel
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2011.
F /GIRA
Haddelsey, Stephen.
Shackleton's dream: Fuchs, Hillary and the
crossing of Antarctica.
Stroud: History, 2012.
Summary: In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton
embarked on what he called 'The last great
polar journey' - the crossing of Antarctica. His
expedition ended in disaster, with the
Endurance crushed and the frozen corpses of
three explorers left on the Antarctic plateau.
919.8/HAD
Hunt, Stephen
Jack Cloudie
London: Harper Voyager, 2011.
F /HUNT
Jeal, Tim.
Explorers of the Nile: the triumph and the
tragedy of a great Victorian adventure.
Summary: Between 1856 and 1876, five
explorers, all British, took on the seemingly
impossible task of discovering the source of
the White Nile.
916.7/JEA
Kemp, Ross.
Devil to pay
London: Arrow, 2011.
F /KEMP
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
The sea is my brother: the lost novel
F /KERO
Kirk, Jay.
Kingdom under glass: a tale of obsession,
adventure, and one man's quest to preserve
the world's great animals.
New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt, 2010.
590.92/AKE
Lee, Michael A.
Letters from a professional nuisance:
improbable jobs, impossible items and
implausible complaints.
London : Portico, 2010.
Summary: After drinking a pint or two of strong
ale a few years ago, the now best-selling
author Michael A. Lee decided, on a whim, to
apply to be the new mayor of El Paso. After an
international news channel - CBS Channel 4 rang to confirm if he was actually being
serious and subsequently aired an interview
on their evening TV broadcast across Mexico,
Michael embarked on an inspired letter writing
adventure that continues to this day.
NFPB /HUMOUR
Lomb, Nick.
Transit of Venus: 1631 to the present.
Kensington, N.S.W.: UNSW Press, 2011.
Summary: The transit of Venus across the sun
in June 2012 will be the last chance in our
lifetime to see this rare planetary alignment
that has been so important in history. Rich in
historical detail and cutting edge science,
along with practical information on how and
when to view the transit, Transit of Venus is
the must-have companion to this extraordinary
astronomical event. From Johannes Kepler's
first prediction of a transit of Venus in 1631, to
Captain Cook's 1769 transit expedition to
Tahiti (which led to the European settlement of
Australia), and on to our 21st-century quest to
find distant Earth-like planets using the transit
method, astronomer Nick Lomb takes us on a
thrilling journey of exploration and adventure.
523.92/LOM
Lynn, Matthew.
Shadow force
F /LYNN
McDermott, Andy.
Empire of gold
F /MACD
McDermott, Andy.
Temple of the gods
F /MACD
McElhatton, Heather, 1970A million little mistakes.
FPB /M
McIntosh, Fiona, 1960The lavender keeper.
Camberwell, Vic: Michael Joseph, 2012.
Summary: Lavender farmer Luc Bonet is
raised by a wealthy Jewish family in the
foothills of the French Alps. When the Second
World War breaks out he joins the French
Resistance, leaving behind his family's
fortune, their home overrun by soldiers, their
lavender fields in disarray. Lisette Forestier is
on a mission of her own: to work her way into
the heart of a senior German officer - and to
bring down the Reich in any way she can.
What Luc and Lisette hadn't counted on was
meeting each other. When they come together
at the height of the Paris occupation, German
traitors are plotting to change the course of
history. But who, if anyone, can be trusted? As
Luc and Lisette's emotions threaten to betray
them, their love may prove the greatest risk of
all.
F /MACI
Neville, Lucy.
Oh Mexico!: love and adventure in Mexico
City.
917.25/NEV
Paech, Jane.
A family in Paris: stories of food, life and
adventure.
Camberwell, Vic.: Lantern, 2011.
944.084/PAE
Rothschild, David de.
Plastiki: across the Pacific on plastic, an
adventure to save our oceans
San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, 2011.
910.9164/ROT
Schedneck, Jillan.
Abu Dhabi days, Dubai nights.
953.57/SCH
Sharma, Robin S. (Robin Shilp), 1964The secret letters of the monk who sold his
Ferrari.
London: HarperElement, 2011.
158.1/SHA
Sillar, Shamus.
Sicily, it's not quite Tuscany.
Sydney: Arena / Allen & Unwin, 2012.
Summary: This is the story of a newly married
couple and the year they spent in Sicily.
Packed with history, culture - and plenty of
misadventure - it will definitely make you
laugh. It also has as much romance as an
ordinary Aussie bloke can muster, and, of
course, a little bit of Mafia action.
914.58/SIL
Sullivan, Mark T.
The Rogue
Summary: Robin Monarch, the CIA's top field
operative, stumbles across a US
governmental conspiracy during a mission in
Istanbul. What he sees is enough to make him
go rogue.
F /SULL
Veitch, Michael.
The forgotten islands: a personal adventure
through the islands of Bass Strait.
919.467/VEI
Zuckoff, Mitchell.
Lost in Shangri-la: a true story of survival,
adventure, and the most incredible rescue
mission of World War II.
New York: Harper Press, 2011.
Summary: Three months before the end of
World War II, a U.S. Army plane flying over
New Guinea crashed in uncharted mountains
inhabited by a Stone Age tribe. Nineteen
passengers and crew were killed and two
were mortally wounded. But somehow three
survived: a lieutenant whose twin brother died
in the crash, a sergeant who suffered terrible
head wounds, and a beautiful member of the
Women's Army Corps.
940.548/ZUC
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Geek reads
will be on Wednesday 14 November at 6 pm &
Thursday 15 November at 10.30am
The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a
pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military
geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.
(Olivia Munn)
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and
brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination. (Albert Einstein)
Arthur, Charles, 1961Digital wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and
the battle for the Internet.
London: Kogan Page, 2012.
338.47/ART
Assange, Julian.
Julian Assange: the unauthorised
autobiography.
Melbourne, Vic.: Text Publishing Co, 2011.
323.445/ASS
Auletta, Ken.
Googled: the end of the world as we know
it.
338.76/GOO
Beckett, Charlie.
Wikileaks: news in the networked era /
Charlie Beckett with James Ball.
Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012.
323.445/BEC
Bizony, Piers.
The search for aliens: a rough guide to life
on other worlds.
London: Rough Guides, 2012.
576.839/BIZ
Blumenthal, Karen.
Steve Jobs: the man who thought different :
a biography.
337.76/JOB
Clayton, Philip, 1956Religion and science: the basic.
London; New York: Routledge, 2012.
201.65/CLA
Clegg, Brian.
The universe inside you: the extreme
science of the human body from quantum
theory to the mysteries of the brain.
London: Icon, 2012.
612/CLE
Cline, Ernest.
Ready player one
New York: Crown Publishers, c2011.
F /CLIN
Domscheit-Berg, Daniel.
Inside Wikileaks : my time with Julian
Assange at the world's most dangerous
website
Carlton North, Vic.: Scribe Pub, 2011.
323.445/ASS
Dufty, David.
How to build an android: the true story of
Philip K. Dick's robotic resurrection.
New York: H. Holt, 2012.
Melbourne University Pub., 2011.
629.892/DIC
Dunn, Jancee.
But enough about me
070.92/DUN
Dyson, George, 1953Turing's cathedral: the origins of the digital
universe.
153.35/LEH
Fowler, Andrew John.
The most dangerous man in the world: the
inside story on Julian Assange and the
WikiLeaks secrets
Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne Uni Pr, 2011.
323.445/ASS
Gallo, Carmine.
The presentation secrets of Steve Jobs:
how to be insanely great in front of any
audience.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010.
658.452/GAL
Gallo, Carmine.
The innovation secrets of Steve Jobs:
insanely different principles for
breakthrough success.
658.4/JOB
Geek wisdom: the sacred teachings of nerd
culture edited by Stephen H. Segal ; with
commentary by Zaki Hasan ... [et al.] ;
Philadelphia, Pa.; Quirk Books, 2011.
158.1/SEG
Gill, Michael (Michael Gates).
How starbucks saved my life : how one
man who had it all lost everything - then
found it again at Starbucks.
North Sydney: Bantam, 2007.
647.95/GIL
Henderson, Mark.
The geek manifesto: why science matters
London; Sydney: Bantam Press, 2012.
Summary: There has never been a better
time to be a geek (or a nerd, or a dork).
What was once an insult used to
marginalize those curious people (in either
sense of the word) and their obsessive
interest in science has increasingly become
a badge of honour.
1)XX(875492.2)
Hertzfeld, Andy
Revolution in the valley: [the insanely great
story of how the Mac was made]
Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, [2011]
Summary: Traces the development of the
Macintosh computer from its inception as
an underground research project in 1979
through the end of Steve Jobs tenure as
CEO of Apple in 2011.
338.761/HER
Huddleston, Rob.
Android fully loaded.
Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2011.
621.38/HUD
I, Steve: Steve Jobs in his own words
Richmond, Vic.: Hardie Grant Books, 2011.
338.76/JOB
Isaacson, Walter.
Steve Jobs.
338.76/JOB
Jennings, Ken.
Maphead: charting the wide, weird world of
geography wonks.
912/JEN
Kahney, Leander.
Inside Steve's brain.
New York: Portfolio, 2008.
338.761/JOB
Katz, Danny.
Dork geek Jew.
A 828/KAT
Lacy, Sarah.
Brilliant, crazy, cocky: how the top 1% of
entrepreneurs profit from global chaos.
Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2011.
658.421/LAC
Levy, Steven.
In the plex: how Google thinks, works, and
shapes our lives.
Summary: Few companies in history have
ever been as successful and as admired as
Google, the company that has transformed
the Internet and become an indispensable
part of our lives. How has Google done it?
Veteran technology reporter Steven Levy
was granted unprecedented access to the
company, and in this revelatory book he
takes readers inside Google headquarters the Googleplex - to show how Google
works.
338.76/LEV
Lopp, Michael.
Being geek: the software developer's career
handbook.
Berkeley, Calif.: O'Reilly, 2010.
658/LOP
MacCormick, John, 1972Nine algorithms that changed the future :
the ingenious ideas that drive today's
computers.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Uni Pr, 2012.
Summary: Every day, we use our
computers to perform remarkable feats. A
simple web search picks out a handful of
relevant needles from the world's biggest
haystack: the billions of pages on the World
Wide Web.
006.3/MACC
McKenna, Paul.
I can make you smarter.
158.1/MACK
Marcus, Ben.
The flame alphabet
F /MARC
Mitnick, Kevin David.
Ghost in the wires: my adventures as the
world's most wanted hacker
New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2011.
Summary: The world's most famous former
computer hacker, now a security
consultant, describes his life on the run
from the FBI creating fake identities, finding
jobs, and keeping tabs on his pursuers.
364.168/MIT
Morgan, Kevin John, 1956Detective Piggott's casebook: true tales of
murder, madness and the rise of forensic
science.
Richmond, Vic.: Hardie Grant Books, 2012.
363.25/PIG
Morozov, Evgeny.
The net delusion: the dark side of internet
freedom.
New York: Public Affairs, 2011.
303.4833/MOR
Palma, Felix J.
The map of the sky: a novel
Brunswick, Vic.: Scribe Publications, 2012.
XX(886359.1)
ON-ORDER
Pariser, Eli.
The filter bubble: what the Internet is hiding
from you
XX(840828.2)
Segall, Ken.
Insanely simple: the obsession that drives
Apple's success.
New York: Portfolio, 2012.
658.4/SEG
Simon, Leslie, 1947Geek girls unite: how fangirls, bookworms,
indie chicks, and Other misfits are taking
over the world.
New York: It Books, 2011.
305.42/SIM
Smiley, Jane.
The man who invented the computer: the
biography of John Atanasoff, digital
pioneer.
004.092/ATA
Stokes, Abigail.
Is this thing on?: a computer handbook for
late bloomers, technophobes, and the
kicking & screaming.
New York: Workman, 2011.
004.16/STO
Sundem, Garth.
Braintrust: 93 top scientists reveal labtested secrets to surfing, dating, dieting,
gambling, growing man-eating plants and
more!
New York: Three Rivers Press, 2012.
500/SUN
Rapkin, Mickey.
Theater geek: the real life drama of a
summer at Stagedoor Manor, the famous
performing arts camp.
792.02/RAP
Turner, Alwyn W.
The man who invented the Daleks: the
strange worlds of Terry Nation
London: Aurum, 2011.
XX(880232.3)
ON-ORDER
Rentel, Ron.
Karma queens, geek gods, and
innerpreneurs
658.8/REN
Wozniak, Steve, 1950iWoz: computer geek to cult icon : getting to
the core of Apple's inventor
London: Headline/Review, 2006.
621.39/WOZ
Robb, J. D., 1950Celebrity in Death
London: Piatkus Books, 2012.
F /ROBB
Young, Jeffrey S.
iCon: Steve Jobs, the greatest second act
in the history of business
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2005.
338.76/JOB
Robb, Peter, 1945Lives.
Melbourne, Vic : Black Inc, 2012.
A 829.4/ROB
MANLY LIBRARY
BOOKLIST
Summer Reading
will be on Wednesday 12 December at 6 pm &
Thursday 13 December at 10.30am
Living in the southern hemisphere means that the Australian Christmas takes place
at the height of summer. It also means that the end of year break for students is in
summer, commonly known as the 'summer holidays', or the 'Christmas holidays'. It
is a popular time for holidays, catching up with family and friends, outdoor activities,
rest, recreation, relaxation and reading.
Here are a few suggestions:
Adams, Jessica.
The summer psychic.
London: Black Swan, c2006.
FPB /CHICK-LIT/A
Clayton, Meg Waite.
The four Ms. Bradwells.
New York: Ballantine, 2011.
F /CLAY
Ainge, Judith.
An Edwardian summer: Sydney & beyond
through the lens of Arthur Wigram Allen
Sydney, N.S.W.: Historic Houses Trust of
New South Wales, 2010.
994.41/ALL
Cloyed, Deborah.
The summer we came to life.
Chatswood, N.S.W.: Mira Books, 2011.
F /CLOY
Andrews, Mary Kay, 1954Summer rental
F /ANDR
Antalek, Robin.
The summer we fell apart: a novel.
FPB /A
Baldacci, David.
One summer
New York: Grand Central Pub., 2011.
F /BALD
Baxter, Stephen.
Bronze summer.
London: Gollancz, 2011.
F /BAXT
Bingham, Charlotte.
The land of summer
F /BING
Black, Benjamin, 1945A death in summer
New York: Henry Holt, 2011.
F /BLAC
Burnside, John, 1955Summer of drowning
F /BURN
Bushnell, Candace.
Summer and the city
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2011.
F /BUSH
Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.
Summer crossing
F /CAPO
Coetzee, J. M., 1940Summertime: scenes from a provincial life.
F /COET
Cusk, Rachel.
The Last Supper: a summer in Italy
945/CUS
Darling, Tom.
Summer.
London: Abacus, 2012.
F /DARL
De Blasi, Marlena.
That summer in Sicily: a love story.
914.58/DEB
De Rosa, Domenica.
Summer school.
F /DERO
Diamond, Lucy.
Summer with my sister.
London: Pan, 2012.
FPB /CHICK-LIT/D
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.
Winter notes on summer impressions
Richmond: Oneworld Classics, 2008.
891.783/DOS
Ellis, Bob.
One hundred days of summer: how we got
to where we are.
Camberwell, Vic: Viking, 2010.
994.07/ELL
Feeny, Penny.
That summer in Ischia
Birmingham: Tindal Street Press, 2011.
F /FEEN
Fforde, Katie.
Summer of love
London: Century, 2011.
F /FFOR
Johnson, Milly.
A summer fling
London: Pocket, 2010.
FPB /CHICK-LIT/J
Flynn, Katie.
The lost days of summer
London: Arrow books, 2011.
F /FLYN
Jones, Cindy Sundermann.
My Jane Austen summer: a season in
Mansfield Park
FPB /CHICK-LIT/J
Frank, Dorothea Benton.
Lowcountry summer.
F /FRAN
Giuffre, Katherine Anne.
An afternoon in summer
Wellington, N.Z.: Awa Press, 2010.
NFPB /BIOGRAPHY
Griffin, Lynne Reeves.
Life without summer
F /GRIF
Gwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.), 1953Empire of the summer moon: Quanah
Parker and the rise and fall of the
Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe
in American history
970.1/PAR
Hart, Marjorie, 1924Summer at Tiffany.
381.14/HAR
Heinrich, Bernd.
Summer world: a season of bounty.
New York: Ecco Press; [London]: 2009.
591.43/HEI
Hilderbrand, Elin.
A summer affair.
London: Sphere, 2008.
F /HILD
Hill, Antonio.
The summer of dead toys.
F /HILL
Hustvedt, Siri.
The summer without men.
London: Sceptre, 2011.
F /HUST
Johansen, Iris.
Dark summer
F /JOHA
Jones, Daniel.
Summer of blood: the peasants' revolt 1381
London: HarperPress, 2009.
942.038/JON
Jungstedt, Mari, 1962The dead of summer
F /JUNG
Kallentoft, Mons.
Summertime death
F /KALL
Kampion, Drew.
Jack O'Neil: it's always summer on the
inside.
San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Bks, 2011.
797.32/ONE
Kessler, Andrew.
Martian summer: robot arms, cowboy
spacemen, and my 90 days with the
Phoenix Mars Mission.
New York: Pegasus Books, 2011.
629.45/KES
Kinghorn, Judith.
The last summer.
F /KING
Ladd, Kylie.
Last summer.
F /LADD
McLynn, Pauline.
Summer in the city
London: Review, 2005.
F /MACL
McNees, Kelly O'Connor.
The lost summer of Louisa May Alcott.
New York: Amy Einhorn Books, 2010.
FPB /HISTORICAL/M
Matthews, Carole.
Summer daydreams.
London: Sphere, 2012.
F /MATT
Skrzynecki, Peter, 1945Boys of summer
Sydney: Brandyl & Schlesinger, 2010.
FPB /AUSTRALIAN/S
Merullo, Roland.
The Italian summer: golf, food, and family at
Lake Como.
914.523/MER
Spencer, Allie.
Summer loving. London: Arrow, 2011.
FPB /CHICK-LIT/S
Mitchard, Jacquelyn.
Still summer.
London: John Murray, 2007.
F /MITC
Monroe, Mary Alice.
Beach house memories
F /MONR
Montefiore, Santa.
The summer house
F /MONT
Muir, John, 1838-1914.
My first summer in the Sierra
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
508.7944/MUI
Patterson, James, 1947James Patterson Summer omnibus: The
beach house; and Beach Road
London: Headline, c2009.
F /PATT
Spencer, Allie.
Summer nights. London: Arrow, 2012.
FPB /CHICK-LIT/S
Trevor, William, 1928Love and summer.
F /TREV
Von Tunzelmann, Alex, 1977Indian summer: the secret history of the
end of an empire
954.0359/TUN
Watson, Bruce.
Freedom summer: the savage season that
made Mississippi burn & made America a
democracy.
323.1196/WAT
Way, Camilla.
The dead of summer.
London: Harper, 2007.
FPB /W
Pearson, Ridley.
Killer summer.
New York: Putnam, 2009.
F /PEAR
Wendel, Tim.
Summer of '68: the season that changed
baseball-- and America-- forever.
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2012.
796.357/WEN
Pollen, Bella.
The summer of the bear.
London: Mantle, 2010.
F /POLL
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
Ethan Frome; Summer; and, Bunner sisters
London: Everyman, 2008.
F /WHAR
Rodi, Robert.
Seven seasons in Siena: my quixotic quest
for acceptance among Italy's proud people.
945.591/ROD
Willett, Marcia.
The summer house.
F /WILL
Shaw, Rebecca.
One hot country summer
F /SHAW
Simmons, Dan, 1948Summer of night
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2011.
F /SIMM
Williams, Polly.
It happened one summer.
F /WILL
Wright, Tom.
What dies in summer.
F /WRIG

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