National Year of Reading 2012
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For the National Year of Reading Ashfield Library aims to promote :
- a lifelong love of reading ;
- literacy ;
- our library collections and services.
There will be many events and activities throughout the year.
Each month Ashfield Library will be publishing a recommended reading list on a particular theme.
April's theme is FEEL :
| Matthew Reilly | Scarecrow and the army of thieves |
Claire Scobie |
Last seen in Lhasa |
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Lee Child |
61 Hours |
Dianne Blacklock |
The Secret ingredient |
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Charles McCarry |
Christopher's Ghosts |
Madeleine St John |
The women in black |
|
Azar Nafisi |
Reading Lolita in Tehran |
Tony Kevin |
Walking the Camino |
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Peter FitzSimons |
Mawson and the ice men of the heroic age |
Amanda Foreman |
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire |
|
Tony Wheeler |
The Lonely Planet Story |
MIchael Wood |
The Story of India |
|
A.B Facey |
A Fortunate Life |
John Bailey |
Into the unknown |
|
Richard Andrews |
Don't buy your retirement home without me |
Michael Dibdin |
Vendetta |
|
Kerry Greenwood |
Cocaine Blues |
Our Story
Last year Australian readers were asked to vote for the books they thought best described what it's like to live in, be from, visit or in some other way connect with the eight different states and territories. The aim was to create a collection of books which, if read together, articulates the Australian experience - remote, regional, suburban and metropolitan.
A mystery, a memoir, a journey into the outback, a sinister and haunting tale, an unsolved disappearance, uncontrollable desires, the horrors of war, laughter, heartbreak and a dark secret - you will find them all in the eight books which Australians have decided will be the National Year of Reading 2012 collection.
Perhaps you would like to use the collection for your book group?
| NSW |  |
John Hughes | The idea of home |
| ACT |  |
Kel Robertson | Smoke and mirrors |
| VIC |  |
Barry Heard | Well done, those men |
| TAS |  |
Richard Flanagan | Wanting |
| SA |  |
Stephen Orr | Time's long ruin |
| NT |  |
Ros Moriarty | Listening to country |
| WA |  |
Craig Silvey | Jasper Jones |
| QLD |  |
Andrew McGahan | The white earth |