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Staff Holiday Reading List 2020 Compiled by Pat Pledger from Suggestions from Members of the OZTL NET Listserv Staff holiday reading list 2020 compiled by Pat Pledger from suggestions from members of the OZTL_NET listserv. The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie. Book Two. Savine dan Glokta, once Adua’s most powerful investor, finds her judgement, fortune and reputation in tatters. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in her way. Anne Weaver. Amnesty by Aravind Adiga. Danny is confronted with a choice: come forward with his knowledge about the crime and risk being deported, or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Illegal immigrant, moral issue particularly relevant to recent situation with Adelaide lockdown. Helen Eddy. A Bookshop in Algiers by Kaouther Adimi. A Bookshop in Algiers celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. Anne Weaver. Leave the world behind by Rumaan Alam. A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong (Ethics, dystopia). Helen Eddy. Innkeeper Chronicles by Ilona Andrews (urban fantasy). On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor. But Dina is...different: Her broom is a deadly weapon; her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. Tehani Croft, Pat Pledger. The Birdman’s Wife by Melissa Ashley. Melissa Ashley really likes birds. That’s why she has filled her novel with the earthly remains of hundreds of birds, courtesy of taxidermist John Gould, husband of Elizabeth Gould, the protagonist in her novel. Jenny Watts. Dreams they forgot by Emma Ashmere. Emma Ashmere's stories explore illusion, deception and acts of quiet rebellion. Diverse characters travel high and low roads through time and place - from a grand 1860s Adelaide music hall to a dilapidated London squat, from a modern Melbourne hospital to the 1950s Maralinga test site, to the 1990s diamond mines of Borneo. Helen Eddy. Future Girl by Asphyxia. An interesting, fictionalised insight to life as a deaf teenager. Beautiful illustrations, thought-provoking content set in the near future. Another #ownstory written by Deaf writer, artist and activist, Asphyxia (author of the Grimstones series). Linda Weeks. The Handmaid's Tale Graphic Novel Adaptation by Margaret Atwood, Renée Nault (Illustrator). The artwork is fabulous. Jenny Watts. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. Margaret Atwood’s sequel picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. (Publisher) Recommended by Jenny Watts. The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey. A beautiful young teacher has been murdered, her body found in the lake, strewn with red roses. Local policewoman Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock pushes to be assigned to the case, concealing the fact that she knew the murdered woman in high school years before. Cherie Allan, Pat Pledger. The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister. Emmeline lives an enchanted childhood on a remote island with her father, who teaches her about the natural world through her senses. What he won’t explain are the mysterious scents stored in the drawers that line the walls of their cabin, or the origin of the machine that creates them. Cherie Allan. The End of the World is Bigger than Love by Davina Bell. YA. Twins Summer and Winter live alone on a remote island, sheltered from a destroyed world. Until a man arrives who will reshape their lives. Trish Buckley. Field of Poppies by Carmel Bird. Another dark and humourous masterpiece from Carmel Bird. The symbolic anchor for this tale is a copy of Monet’s famous painting. Rural Muckleton holds its own dark secrets from the past – violence, murder and mystery, and they don’t improve with the passing years. Even the almost unnoticeable figures in the painting may be harbouring less than innocent intents. Jenny Watts. Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Finally free from his nightmare marriage, Toby Fleishman is ready for a life of online dating and weekend-only parental duties. But as he optimistically looks to a future that is wildly different from the one he imagined, his life turns upside- down as his ex-wife, Rachel, suddenly disappears. Kara Bystrom. The Penric and Desdemona series by Lois McMaster Bujold (fantasy novellas by the author of my favourite SF series, The Vorkosigan Saga) Feature Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona. Tehani Croft, Pat Pledger. Book of Colours by Robyn Cadwallader. In a small shop in Paternoster Row, three people are drawn together around the creation of a magnificent book, an illuminated manuscript of prayers, a book of hours. Even though the commission seems to answer the aspirations of each one of them, their own desires and ambitions threaten its completion. Cherie Allan. Gulliver’s wife by Lauren Chater. London, 1702. When her husband is lost at sea, Mary Burton Gulliver, midwife and herbalist, is forced to rebuild her life without him. But three years later when Lemuel Gulliver is brought home, fevered and communicating only in riddles, her ordered world is turned upside down. Helen Eddy. Sorcerer Royal series by Zen Cho (alternate/magic realism historical fantasy). In Regency London, Zacharias Wythe is England's first African Sorcerer Royal. He leads the eminent Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers, but a malicious faction seeks to remove him by fair means or foul. Tehani Croft, Pat Pledger. The Woods by Harlan Coben. Paul Copeland's sister went missing twenty years ago. Now raising a daughter alone, Cope balances family life with a career as a prosecutor. But when a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to Cope, the well-buried secrets of the past are threatening everything. Debra McGhee, Pat Pledger. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. Hunger Games. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. Anne Weaver. The Last Mrs Parrish by Liv Constantine. How far would you go to make all your dreams come true? Audio book. Mary Davidson. Puppet show by C.W. Craven. CWA Gold Dagger 2020. serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. Pat Pledger. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. This is about a Mexican woman named Lydia, her son Luca and everything they sacrifice to survive the cartel that murdered their family and make it to the United States. Mary Davidson, Debra McGhee, Deborah Brown. The lost love song by Minnie Darke. In Australia, Arie Johnson waits impatiently for classical pianist Diana Clare to return from a world tour, hopeful that after seven years together she’ll finally agree to marry him. On her travels, Diana composes a song for Arie. It’s the perfect way to express her love, knowing they’ll spend their lives together . Won’t they? Jen Johnson. The mission house by Carys Davies. Fleeing the dark undercurrents of contemporary life in Britain, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in Ooty, a hill station in South India. There he finds solace in life's simple pleasures, travelling by rickshaw around the small town with his driver Jamshed and staying in a mission house beside the local presbytery where the Padre and his adoptive daughter Priscilla have taken Hilary under their wing. (Anxiety, depression) Helen Eddy. All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton. Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain down, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger’s daughter, turns once again to the sky for guidance. She carries a stone heart inside a duffel bag next to the map that leads to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer who put a curse on her family. Anne Weaver, Debra McGhee. The sea and us by Catherine de Saint Phalle. After many years spent living in Seoul, a young man called Harold drifts back to Australia and rents a room above a fish and chip shop called The Sea and Us. Who he meets and what he experiences there propels him to question his own yearnings and failings, and to fight for meaning and a sense of place that can only be reached by facing what is lost. (Friendship, abuse) Helen Eddy. Consolation by Garry Disher. Book 3 in series about Constable Paul Hirschhausen. A man enraged about the principal's treatment of his daughter. A little girl in harm's way and an elderly woman in danger. An absent father who isn't where he's supposed to be; another who flees to the back country armed with a rifle. Families under pressure. And the cold, seeping feeling that something is very, very wrong. Pat Pledger. Rebuilding Tomorrow edited by Tsana Dolichva - follow up to Defying Doomsday, disabled and chronically ill protagonists build new worlds from the remains of the old. (Australian publisher, SF short stories) Tehani Croft. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. Twelve very different people, mostly black and female, more than a hundred years of change, and one sweeping, vibrant, glorious portrait of contemporary Britain. Bernardine Evaristo presents a gloriously new kind of history for this old country: ever- dynamic, ever-expanding and utterly irresistible.
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