Book Club - End of Year Wrap & Gift Guide

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Here are our top picks to help you find something for the booklover in your life!

Michael Thompson's How to Be Remembered

For the romantics.

How to be Remembered has a fantastic concept that begs you to root for the protagonist and then whisks you along on a terrific ride of a narrative.

Monica Vuu's When One of Us Hurts

Thriller with a twist

When One of Us Hurts entwines narratives of a dysfunctional family inn a small town and slowly unravels to a big reveal!

Emily Spurr's Beatrix & Fred

No category here and I can’t say too much because spoilers, but just trust me it's incredible!

Emily Spurr is terrific and always surprises. I could say this is a heartfelt character driven novel (and it is) but it is sooo much more.

Kirsty Jagger's Roseghetto & Shirley Le's Funny Ethnics

For the Sydney/Gadigal-philes.

This is a made up category to capture two terrific books that both do not disappoint story-wise but also will have locals pointing at the page like some sort of Leo DiCaprio meme as they recognise their local.

Helena Fox's The Quiet and the Loud & sydney khoo’s The Spider and Her Demons

Young Adult pick

Two very different novels about being young, growing up and finding your place in the world. Both these novels explore how being in the world is tough and that it’s important to find your tribe (even if they have eight legs)

Tony Birch's Women & Children

Literary Pick of the Year.

If I had to say just one, this is that one. Tony gives us a story that breaks down so many concepts at the heart of our society and opens up a world where we can be better.

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