Looking for a new book to kickstart your year?   Look no further we’ve got you covered.  

Here are a few of our reader’s book recommendations that you may not have heard of.  

Ruth Fontaine – I’m reading We of the Never Never atm. Not sure if it’s still well known. I’ve read it before but awhile back and love it. I love reading how they lived nearly 120 years ago.  

Elaine Rosenberg –  The Abbey Girls Series by Elsie J Oxenham.

Maryika Welter –  The courage to be disliked. … Furmitake Kogan, Ichiro Kishimi.

Janice Stewart –  A Fortunate Life by Albert Facey

Suzanne Midson –  On Our Selection by Steele Rudd. Read it when I was about 10/12. Best laugh ever. Australian humour at its best.

Julie AndersonEpisode of Sparrows by Rumor Goddin  

Nancie Golsby –  The Half Burned Tree by Dympna Cusack

June Maynard –  Sahara, by Paula Constant. Preceded by Slow Journey South. A thrilling, actual account of her adventure.

Peter Rayner Enforcer by Caesar Campbell

Meg Milton –  I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven

Edie Dore –  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon.

Christine CornforthA Grief Observed by CS Lewis.  

Wendy OliverThe Good Earth by Pearl Buck

Do you have any other recommendations that we might have missed?

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