Kew Booktalk 23 March.

This is what we talked about:

Claire.

War & Navy Depts. Washington DC.
Instrutions for American servicemen in Britain 1942
940.541273 INS

Dooley, Sean.
Cooking with Baz
928.21 DOO

Peacock, Molly.
The paper garden: Mrs Delaney (begins her life work) at 72.
709.2 DEL(P)

Paech, Jane.
A family in Paris: stories of food, life and adventure
914.436 PAE

Lisa.

Hill, Susan.
A kind man
FIC HILL

Cannell, Dorothy.
Goodbye Ms Chips: an Ellie Haskell mystery
FIC CANNE
LP FIC CANNE

Robertson, Michael.
The Baker Street letters
FIC ROBER

McCall Smith, Alexander.
The lost art of gratitude: an Isabel Dalhousie novel
FIC MACCA
LPFIC MACCA

Phillips, Juanita.
A pressure cooker saved my life: how to have it all, do it all and keep it all together
641.587 PHI

Miles Franklin Longlist

The nine novels selected for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist are:


Bauer, Jon.
Rocks in the belly



Brown, Honey.
The good daughter



Holland, Patrick.
The Mary Smokes boys




Marchetta, Melina
The piper's son



McDonald, Roger.
When colts ran



Orr, Stephen.
Time's long ruin

Scott, Kim.
That deadman dance



Tranter, Kirsten.
The legacy



Womersley, Chris.
Bereft


The short list will be announced on April 19, and the winner will be announced on June 22.

Hawthorn Booktalk 10th March

Here's what we talked about.

JUSTINE

RACHMAN, Tom
The imperfectionists
FIC RACHM

GRIFFIN, Kate
The midnight mayor
FIC GRIFF

WOMERSLEY, Chris
Bereft
FIC WOMER

HOLLEY

BAGEANT, Joe
Rainbow pie: a redneck memoir
928.1 BAG

DREWE, Robert
Walking Ella: a dog-day dossier
636.7 DRE

WAY, Twigs
Crocodile in the fernery, pelicans in the pond: histories of entertaining and unlikely garden pets
712.60942 WAY

ELLIOTT, Charles
More papers from the potting shed
635 ELL

CAROL

COTTERILL, Colin
The coroner's lunch
FIC COTTE

McDERMID, Val
The grave tattoo
FIC MACDE

McFARLANE, Brian
Real and reel: the education of a film obsessive and critic
791.43015 MACF