Booktalks & Staff recommendations

Kew Booktalk 26th November



Claire

PAECH, Jane.
Delicious days in Paris           

SITTENFELD, Curtis
Sisterland: a novel.

SHAH, Sami
I, migrant: a comedian’s journey form Karachi to the outback.

Great Britain Automobile Association.
AA easy read Britain 2014

Fiona
STAINCLIFFE, Cath.
Letters to my daughter’s killer.

HEALEY, Emma.
Elizabeth is missing.

LAUKKANEN. Owen
The professionals.

GARDNER, Lisa
The perfect husband.

CRYSTAL, David.
Wordsmiths and warriors.

Lisa

HARRIS, A S A.   
The silent wife.

GRASBY, Marion
Asia Express.                

THOMAS, Deborah
The Australian women’s weekly fashion: the first 50 years.

WHITEHOUSE, Lucie
Before we met.

GOODWIN, Julie
Gather.



Hawthorn Booktalk 18th November


LISA

De BOTTON, Alain and ARMSTRONG, John
Art as therapy : works from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

HARRISON, A.S.A
The silent wife

PARKER, Kate
The vanishing thief

TAYLOR, Barbara
The last asylum

ROBYN

EDSEL, Robert
The monuments men:
Allied heroes, Nazi thieves and the greatest treasure hunt in history

DAVIS, Brooke
Lost and found

GRIFFITH, Nicola
Hild

LONDON, Joan
The golden age

BERTHOUD, Ella
The novel cure:
an A - Z of literary remedies

RITA

GALBRAITH, Robert
The cuckoo’s calling

BLANKMAN, Anne
Prisoner of night and fog
  
Camberwell Booktalk Thursday 30th October


Michael

FRY, Stephen.  The Fry chronicles.  
HOLT, Tom.  The outsorcerer’s apprentice. 
JOYCE, Rachel.  The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
KANTER, Trudi.  Some girls, some hats and Hitler.    

Michele

DICKER, Joel.  The truth about the Harry Quebert affair. 
SIMSION, Graeme.  The Rosie effect

Ivy

FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL, Hugh.  Hugh’s three good things - on a plate.
JAMES, Henry. The turn of the screw.
MURAKAMI, Haruki. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage



October 2014 talk at Balwyn Library

Philippa



RULE, Cheryl Sternman.

Ripe…



DEROCHE, Torre.
Love with a chance of drowning.

MORIARTY,Liane.
Big little lies.

MCINERNY, Monica
Hello from the Gillespies.


Sharni

FRIED, Dinah.
Fictitious dishes.
 
BACKMAN, Frederick.
A man called Ove.

WHITEHALL, Jack & Michael.
Him and me.

WATSON, S.J.
Before I go to sleep.


Lisa

HANNAH, Sophie.
The monogram murders.    

BAUER, Belinda.
Rubbernecker.     
 
WALTON, Leslie.
The strange and beautiful sorrows of Ava Lavender.

JESSEN, Rebecca.
Gap.

 


October 2014 talk at Ashburton Library

Jane



Children of war by Martin Walker

Jane and Sharni
The collected works of A.J.Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Ros and Jane

The strays by Emily Bitto.


Landline by Rainbow Rowell


The miniaturist by Jessie Burton

The farm by Tom Rob Smith



  September 2014 talk at Hawthorn Library

Holley
Innocent traitor by Alison Weir
Victoria's empire by Victoria Wood
A great selection of new gardening books

Carol
Dear life by Alice Munro
Why be happy when you could be normal by Jeanette Winterson
Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Indian textiles by John Gillow

Fiona
So cold the river by Michael Koryta
In the bleak midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer
Dark horse by Honey Brown
Brideshead abbreviated by John Crace

August 2014 booktalk at Camberwell Library
Michael
Furies of Calderon by J im Butcher
Mystery man by Colin Bateman
Charming by Elliott James
Lindsey Stirling : music by Lindsey Stirling

Michele
Joyful by Robert Hillman
The yellow eyes of crocodiles by Katherine Pancol
Before we met by Lucie Whitehouse
Did she kill him? by Kate Colquhoun
Ella Minnow Pea :  a progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable by M Dunn
Gifted : the tale of 10 mysterious book sculptures gifted to the city of words and ideas
The invention of wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Michele M
The moth by Catherine Burns
Plague and cholera by Patrick Deville
Inside a pearl: my years in Paris by Edmund White


May talk at Camberwell Library
Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
The quickening maze by Adam Foulds
The ambitions of Jane Franklin by Alison Alexander
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
The lover's dictionary by David Levithan.
Advanced style by Ari Seth Cohen.
Salmon fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
Kitchen Privileges by Mary Higgins Clark.
Stormdance by Jay Kristoff
The pledge by Kimberly Derting
Odalisque by Fiona Mcintosh
84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff
The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss

March booktalk at Kew Library
Audrey Gordon's Tuscan summer by Audry Gordon
The testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
Where'd you go Bernadette? by Maria Semple
The amber amulet by Craig Silvey
Swimming home by Deborah Levy
The tour : a memoir by Denise Scott
Close friends and relatives by Bob Elsdale
This body of death by Elizabeth George
Murder with the lot by Sue Williams
Secret Olympian by Anonymous
Cold grave by Kathryn Fox
The glass room by Ann Cleeves
No rest for the dead various authors
Trust your eyes by Linwood Barclay
Weird things customers say in bookshops by Jen Campbell
Paris markets by Dixon Long