Book Club

God, the Devil and Me

March 2021 Book of the Month

In this unique and highly entertaining autobiography, Alf Taylor chronicles his life growing up in the infamous New Norcia Mission, north of Perth in the fifties and sixties. At ...

Eye of a Rook

February 2021 Book of the Month

When Alice Tennant, a successful writer and academic and a loving wife to Duncan, succumbs to a mysterious and debilitating pain, her life as she knows it changes forever. ...

The Subjugate

January 2021 Book of the Month

The Subjugate is set in the eerie metropolis of San Francisco and its outskirts, a decade or so after the neuro technology Crash of 2040, the result of a ...

Not Always Diplomatic: An Australian Woman’s Journey through International Affairs

December 2020 Book of the Month

Not Always Diplomatic is the life story of West Australian Sue Boyd, a remarkable pioneer in international diplomacy. Educated at thirteen schools across five continents, Boyd continued her globe-trotting ...

Skyglow, Leslie Thiele (Margaret River Press)

November 2020 Book of the Month

From the miraculous to the mechanical, Skyglow delves into the complexities of mundane life to discover truth and balance within it. Thiele’s collection of stories contains an eclectic mix ...

The History of Mischief, Rebecca Higgie (Fremantle Press)

October 2020 Book of the Month

Following the death of their parents, feisty 9-year-old Jessie and her older sister Kay move to their grandmother’s abandoned home in Guildford where they discover a book, The History ...

Living on Stolen Land, Ambelin Kwaymullina (Magabala Books)

September 2020 Book of the Month

Living on Stolen Land is a prose-style manifesto that asks the reader to consider the cost of living on stolen land. In this latest work by talented writer and ...

We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know: Dispatches from an Age of Impunity, Sophie McNeill (ABC Books)

August 2020 Book of the Month

We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know by Sophie McNeill is an evocative and powerful book that thrusts readers into lives and locations devastated by war and oppression. In rough ...

Smart Ovens for Lonely People, Elizabeth Tan (Brio Books)

July 2020 Book of the Month

Conspiracies, celebrities and therapies underpin this beguiling short story collection from Elizabeth Tan. A cat-shaped oven tells a depressed woman she doesn’t have to be sorry anymore. A Yourtopia ...

Father of the Lost Boys, Yuot A. Alaak (Fremantle Press)

June 2020 Book of the Month

During the Second Sudanese Civil War, thousands of South Sudanese boys were displaced from their villages or orphaned in attacks from northern government troops. Many became refugees in Ethiopia, ...