Balwyn Booktalk. 20 February.

Q. What do French cats, the Channel islands in wartime, and Korean delicatessens in New York have in common?

A. They were all talked about at the first Balwyn Library booktalk for 2012.

So if you weren't at the bootalk here are the books we talked about...

SUE

LIVELY, Penelope.

How it all began

FIC LIVEL

CONE, Libby.

War on the margins

FIC CONE

HOWELL, Katherine.

Frantic

FIC HOWEL

BANHAM, Stephen.

Characters: cultural stories revealed through typography

686.224 BAN

LISA

KRAKAUER, Jon.

Into the wild

917.98045 KRA

McKENNA. Rachael.

The French cat

FOL 636.8 MACK

MALLIET, G.M.

Wicked autumn: a Max Tudor novel

FIC MALLI

ROWE, Jennifer.

Love, honour & O'Brien

FIC ROWE

FIONA

GRIFFITHS, Elly.

The house at Sea's End

FIC GRIFF

TEMPLETON, Aline.

Dead in the water

FIC TEMPL

BARCLAY, Linwood.

The accident

FIC BARCL

HOWE, Ben Ryder.

My Korean deli: risking it all for a convenience store

381.147092 HOW