Fiction Display - Australian Fiction

Thea ASTLEY

Murray BAIL
Jean BEDFORD
Peter CAREY
Brian CASTRO
Bruce CHATWIN
Marcus CLARKE
Bryce COURTENAY
Eleanor DARK
Garry DISHER
Robert DREWE
Albert FACEY
Miles FRANKLIN
Helen GARNER
Peter GOLDSWORTHY
Kate GRENVILLE
Shirley HAZZARD
Xavier HERBERT
George JOHNSTON
Thomas KEANEALLY
Chris KOCH
Henry LAWSON
David MALOUF
John MARSDEN
Olga MASTERS
Alex MILLER
Sally MORGAN
Di MORRISSEY
Judy NUNN
Ruth PARK
Katharine Susanah PRICHARD
Henry Handel RICHARDSON
Kim SCOTT
Christina STEAD
Randolph STOW
Kylie TENNANT
Arthur W UPFIELD
Morris WEST
Tim WINTON

New Junior Books - January

New Non-Fiction and CDs - January

New Fiction and DVDs - January

TOP Adult Non-Fiction new to Lake Macquarie Library this month

A week at the airport : a Heathrow diary -- Botton, Alain de
"I enjoyed this book, undemanding and gently ironic as it was. Evocative photographs enhance the moods captured by de Botton's musings. However brief his stay at Heathrow, his book made more connections, prompted more contemplation, displayed more wit and aroused subtler emotions than any number of TV documentaries on the subject. I would warmly recommend it." www.thebookbag.co.uk

Bon Jovi : when we were beautiful -- conversations with Phil Griffin.
"When We Were Beautiful takes us on a journey through their lives, and we see being a rock star isn’t all glamour and perfection. It is a lot of hard work, and Jon Bon Jovi is the one in control of it all. An intimate look at the man and his friends that have been by his side from the very beginning, and if it was even possible it made me love this band I already love even more." celebritytoday.today.com

Halfway to Hollywood : diaries 1980-1988 / Michael Palin
"This second volume of diaries picks up after the furore over Life Of Brian ... and takes in a decade where although mostly spent writing movies, it seemed he might find himself being a Hollywood star, after the success of A Fish Called Wanda." www.bookgeeks.co.uk

Stars over Shiralee / Sheryl McCorry with Janet Blagg
"Sheryl McCorry's memoir Diamonds and Dust was a runaway bestseller in 2007. Now, in Stars over Shiralee, Sheryl brings her story up to date, picking up from the death of her husband Bob McCorry. Having moved from the Kimberley to a property called the Shiralee, Sheryl is rocked by the death of her ex-husband." www.readings.com.au

The spirit level : why more equal societies almost always do better / Richard Wilkinson
"The authors point out that the life-diminishing results of valuing growth above equality in rich societies can be seen all around us. Inequality causes shorter, unhealthier and unhappier lives; it increases the rate of teenage pregnancy, violence, obesity, imprisonment and addiction; it destroys relationships between individuals born in the same society but into different classes; and its function as a driver of consumption depletes the planet's resources." www.guardian.co.uk

Fiction Display - Classic Fiction

Jane AUSTEN
Arnold BENNETT
Elizabeth BOWEN
Anne BRONTE
Charlotte BRONTE
Emily BRONTE
John BUCHAN
John BUNYAN
Samuel BUTLER
Joyce CARY
Wilkie COLLINS
Ivy COMPTON-BURNETT
Joseph CONRAD
Daniel DEFOE
Charles DICKENS
Arthur Conan DOYLE
Lawrence DURRELL
George ELIOT
Henry FIELDING
Ford Madox FORD
E. M. FORSTER
Elizabeth GASKELL
William GOLDING
Robert GRAVES
Graham GREENE
H. Rider HAGGARD
Thomas HARDY
Georgette HEYER
Anthony HOPE
AldousHUXLEY
Jerome K. JEROME
James JOYCE
Charles KINGSLEY
Rudyard KIPLING
D. H. LAWRENCE
William Somerset MAUGHAM
Nancy MITFORD
Iris MURDOCH
George ORWELL
Anthony POWELL
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Samuel RICHARDSON
Dorothy SAYERS
Walter SCOTT
Laurence STERNE
Bram STOKER
Jonathan SWIFT
Wm Makepeace THACKERAY
Dylan THOMAS
Anthony TROLLOPE
Evelyn WAUGH
H. G. WELLS
P. G. WODEHOUSE
Virginia WOOLF

Holiday Acitivity - How-to-draw Circus, 19 January

TOP DVDs new to Lake Macquarie Library this month

George Gently
"We first met Martin Shaw's solemn Inspector Gently in a one-off episode last year, when he arrived in Northumberland after the murder of his wife, tracking down the gang boss who killed her. His familiar Judge John Deed voice replaced by the soft rumble of an approaching goods train, Shaw decided that Northumberland might offer a more peaceful life. ... With a quiet, determined manner, he ploughed a furrow through a case full of false names, false leads, false starts, framings and lies; helped (and occasionally hindered) by his long-limbed young sergeant, John Bacchus - a lad with flashes of brilliance in between long stretches of cheerful incompetence.." guardian.co.uk

Mad men. The complete first season
"Mad Men is a joy to watch - the clothes, the clocks, the furniture, it's like a mid-century night's dream. But this is no mere period piece. It's a smart, complex drama that attempts to get through the facades that have always hidden the truth." USA Today

The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
"Written and created by Sally Wainwright after her disillusionment over the last British elections, “Mrs. Pritchard” evokes a 1970s pop feminism that doesn’t come around much anymore — a Helen Reddy-“9 to 5”-“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a-bicycle” kind of feminism that feels as distant and goofy to us now as the “Mad Men” era of sexism it fought to depose." New York Times

The Lost Room
"A very complex metaphysical mystery, the enjoyment of which comes, in no small part, from the surprises that spill out as it slowly unfurls." New York Daily News

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