Winter Reads

Our staff have been working hard to keep you warm this winter with these recommended books, movies and magazines.

You can put these on hold, wait until your notified and come pick them up. Eliminating the need to spend too much time in the cold.

Better still some are available through our digital library, which you can access at home with your library card without taking your jimjams off.

So put the kettle on, get the fire going and snuggle down for some reading.

For those who love cooking

Sally Wise's A year on the farm part diary, part cook book. With 250 recipes including a delicious sounding apple cider. It's a great choice anyone interested in growing their own produce, farming and cooking.






Dreaming of drinking Chianti in the warm Tuscan evening? Stanley Tucci will take you there with The Tucci Table. Easy recipes and fascinating information on his life.





If you can't think of what to make for dinner Eat the week is the cook book for you. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert and snack recipes provided for every day of the year. And they all sound delicious.

Biographies

Born survivors is the story of three pregnant women who meet in Auschwitz and with their newborns survived to make their way to freedom.

At 24 Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. Reasons to stay alive is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. Uplifting reading.  

Robin Williams : when the laughter stops, celebrates his brilliant life, comic genius. This biography attempts to understand what could have driven such a warm and gifted man to take his own life.

Fantasy and Science Fiction 

Awesome YA fiction, which adults will love too. 18 year old Celaena is forced to become an assassin for the royal household. Throne of Glass is the first in a trilogy.




Helix is a TV series, which follows a team of CDC scientists who are thrust into a potentially life-or-death situation after being deployed to a privately run research base in the Arctic to secretly investigate what could be a disease outbreak.

Read the unofficial history of the Norse god Loki in The gospel of Loki. From his recruitment by Odin from the realm of Chaos, through his years as the go-to man of Asgard, to his fall from grace in the build-up to Ragnarok, this is the unofficial history of the world's ultimate trickster.

Mystery and Suspense

Stephen King is a master storyteller and his new novel Finders keepers: a novel is another fantastic read about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far--a book about the power of storytelling.

After the crash a plane crashes with one miraculous survivor - a three month old baby. Two families come forward to claim her, one poor and one rich, which sparks and investigation that lasts for almost two decades.

Val McDermid has released a new novel in her series featuring psychologist Tony Hill and Carol Jordan. Splinter the silence is about the mysterious deaths of several women who were the victims of vicious cyber bullying.

Read this if you love action packed thrillers with characters from spies, films, publishing and politics. The accident by Chris Pavone 

I came to say goodbye by Caroline Overington is an home grown suspense mystery about a kidnapping and a family left to pick up the pieces. 

Romance

Play, Lead, Lick are three novels from the Stage Dive series from Australian novelist Kylie Scott. Featuring rock god hotties and realistic heroines these novels will keep you warm on a cold winter's night. 

Start planning for a spring wedding with the third installment of Anne Gracie's Chance Sister series The Spring Bride. This novel is centers on Jane - about to make her debut into society and hopefully make a safe and sensible marriage until she meets former spy now in disguise Zachary Black. 






What nicer way is there to warm up than with a Katie Fforde novel. Her latest Vintage Wedding is about three women who decide to go into business together as wedding planners. 

At star's end - romance set in space- as much fun as it sounds. 

General 

Whiplash watch J K Simmons academy award winning performance of a drumming teacher who pushes his students to excel. 

Still life with bread crumbs by Anna Quindlen is about seeing the world in new deeper dimensions while evaluating second chances at love, career, and self-understanding.

The Rosie Project, if you are yet to read this great Australian novel. You can borrow as an ebook, regular or large print book. Read it before the movie comes out. 

Go on a pilgrimage with Arkie as she travels around Australia to reclaim her mojo and see all the big things - Arkie's pilgrimage to the next big thing


No time for reading - why not try... 

Kinfolk - a slow living magazine full of thought provoking articles on how live in a fast-paced world.

Handmade - get inspired to create with this magazine. You can borrow from us and download the patterns from their website.

A Zinio e-magazine, create an account, download and read on your device.

Audio book through Bolinda or OneClick Digital

Or brave the cold drop by and grab one of our new magazines.

Keep warm and happy reading. 





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