Book Chat – May 2022

Are you looking for some reading inspiration? Check out the selection of titles recommended by our Book Chat groups during May. 

Book Chat is an informal book group with no set reading list. Come along to share what you are currently reading, what’s next on your TBR (to-be-read) pile, or discuss your favourite books from childhood. Our groups often also chat about movies, audiobooks, podcasts, and magazines they have enjoyed. Light refreshments are provided.

Inverloch Book Chat

• Unforgiven – Sarah Barrie
• 56 Days – Catherine Ryan Howard
• American Dirt – Jeanie Cummins
• The bird in the bamboo cage – Hazel Gaynor
• A story of Australia’s People- Geoffrey Blainey
• Van Demonians – Janet McCalman
• In Tasmania – Nicholas Shakespeare
• Farmers or Hunter Gathers; The Dark Emu Debate – Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe
• This is not a book about Benedict Cumberbatch – Tabitha Carvan
• Daughters of a Dragon – William Andrews

Wonthaggi Book Chat 

• I heard the owl call my name by Margaret Craven
• Triple Helix by Lauren Burns
• Or the bull kills you by Jason Webster
• Murder and Medleson by Kerry Greenwood
• Sisters of the battle road by Jim Maloney
• All the flowers in Paris by Sarah Jio
• The lost girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
• Miss Seeton Undercover by Hamilton Crane
• The Russian Wife by Barry Maitland

Waterline Library Book Chat

• An original diary from WW1 by the grandfather of one of the participants
• Ink Iron Glass by Gwendolyn Clare (YA Fantasy)
• Greek Myths retold – Stephen Fry (Non-Fiction)
• J.D. Robb crime series (Crime Fiction)
• Bookman Dead Style and To Helvetic and back by Paige Shelton (Cosy Crime)
• The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham (Historical Fiction)
• Passage of no return by Helen Zervopoulos (Local Non-Fiction)
• My country by Grant Stan (Non-Fiction, Biography)
• Tell me why by Archie Roach (Non-Fiction, Biography)
• How to end a story – Diaries 1995-1998 by Helen Garner (Non-Fiction)
• The cane by Maryanne Cuskelly (Australian noir)
• Flying Angels by Danielle Steel (Historical Fiction)
• Apples never fall by Liane Moriarty (Fiction)