Book Club
Fourth Thursday of each month, 10.00 am to 11.00 am.
Our next book is Darkness for Light by Emma Viskic to be discussed on Thursday 27 February.
About this month’s book:
After a lifetime of bad decisions troubled PI Caleb Zelic is finally making good ones. He's in therapy, reconnecting with the Deaf community, and reconciling with his beloved wife. But he can't escape his past. A violent confrontation forces Caleb back into contact with his double-crossing partner, Frankie. When her niece is kidnapped, Frankie and Caleb must work together to save the child's life. But their efforts will risk everything, including their own lives.
For more details or to secure your place, please get in touch with one of our well-read staff members or call the store on 02 4365 5288.
Second Thursday of each month, 4.30 pm to 5.00 pm. The next meeting is on Thursday 12 March.
Due to the wide age range of members of this book club, there is no set book to read for each month. Instead, we encourage those attending to bring in their favourite book or the last book they read and share it with the group.
Please RSVP on 02 4365 5288 or email the store to secure your place.
For more details or if you have any questions, please get in touch with one of our well-read staff members.
BOOK FACE erina fair -YOUng adult book club
Last Friday of each month, 6.30 pm to 7.30 pm.
Our next book has taken the international book community by storm and is a BOOK FACE bestseller! Join us for a discussion of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens on Friday 28 February.
About this month’s book:
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life - until the unthinkable happens.
For more details, please get in touch with one of our well-read staff members.
The second Tuesday of each month, 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm.
Join us for a fun discussion of Slay by Brittney Morris on Tuesday 10 March.
By day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the only Black kids at Jefferson Academy. But at home, she joins hundreds of thousands of Black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card game, SLAY. No one knows Kiera is the game developer, not her friends, her family, not even her boyfriend, Malcolm, who believes video games are partially responsible for the "downfall of the Black man."
But when a teen in Kansas City is murdered over a dispute in the SLAY world, news of the game reaches mainstream media, and SLAY is labeled a racist, exclusionist, violent hub for thugs and criminals. Even worse, an anonymous troll infiltrates the game, threatening to sue Kiera for "anti-white discrimination."
Driven to save the only world in which she can be herself, Kiera must preserve her secret identity and harness what it means to be unapologetically Black in a world intimidated by Blackness. But can she protect her game without losing herself in the process?
This book club is for young people aged 12 - 18. Simply read the book prior to the event and show up on the day! If you have any questions, please get in touch with one of our well-read staff members.
BOOK FACE Gungahlin - young adult book club
Last Thursday of each month, 6.00 pm to 7.00 pm.
Our second book for the year is Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens to be discussed on Thursday 27 February.
About this month’s book:
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life - until the unthinkable happens.
For more details, please get in touch with one of our well-read staff members.
First Thursday of each month, 6.30 pm to 8.00 pm.
Our second book of 2020 is one of the most talked about books of the moment, American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins to be discussed on Thursday 5 March.
About this month’s book:
Yesterday, Lydia had a bookshop.
Yesterday, Lydia was married to a journalist.
Yesterday, she was with everyone she loved most in the world.
Today, her eight-year-old son Luca is all she has left.
For him, she will carry a machete strapped to her leg.
For him, she will leap onto the roof of a high speed train.
For him, she will find the strength to keep running.
American Dirt is the unforgettable story of a mother and son fleeing a drug-cartel to cross the US-Mexico border.
For more details, please get in touch with one of our well-read staff members.
BOOK FACE Orion Springfield - Young Adult Book club
Last Thursday of each month, 7.00 pm to 8.00 pm.
Our next book is Infinity Son by Adam Silvera to be discussed on Thursday 27 February.
About this month’s book:
Growing up in New York, brothers Emil and Brighton always idolized the Spell Walkers—a vigilante group sworn to rid the world of specters. While the Spell Walkers and other celestials are born with powers, specters take them, violently stealing the essence of endangered magical creatures.
Brighton wishes he had a power so he could join the fray. Emil just wants the fighting to stop. The cycle of violence has taken a toll, making it harder for anyone with a power to live peacefully and openly. In this climate of fear, a gang of specters has been growing bolder by the day.
Then, in a brawl after a protest, Emil manifests a power of his own—one that puts him right at the heart of the conflict and sets him up to be the heroic Spell Walker Brighton always wanted to be.
Brotherhood, love, and loyalty will be put to the test, and no one will escape the fight unscathed.
For more details, please get in touch with one of our well-read staff members.
First Thursday of each month, 6.00 pm to 7.00 pm.
Our next book club pick is The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen, which will be discussed on Thursday 5 March 2020.
About this month’s book:
Lost letters have only one hope for survival . . .
Inside the Dead Letters depot in East London, William Woolf is one of thirty letter detectives who spend their days solving mysteries: missing postcodes, illegible handwriting, rain-smudged ink, lost address labels, torn packages, forgotten street names - they are all the culprits of missed birthdays, broken hearts, unheard confessions, pointless accusations, unpaid bills and unanswered prayers.
But when William discovers letters addressed simply to 'My Great Love', his work takes on new meaning. Written by a wistful woman to the soulmate she hasn't met yet, the missives capture William's heart in ways he didn't know were possible, and soon he begins to wonder: Are these letters truly lost? Or might he be the intended recipient - could he be her great love?
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