Cozy up this winter with Warm Winter Reads. Visit your local library and pick up a special bookmark for a captivating reading experience. Delve into handpicked books that take you away to snow-covered landscapes and heart-warming adventures. Chosen by esteemed authors, these recommendations will ignite your imagination.
Explore collections of heartfelt romances, mysterious thrillers, and thought-provoking literary works. Discover hidden gems at the Warm Winter Reads display and share your reading adventures with #WarmWinterReads. Let's connect with fellow book lovers on this literary journey.
The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth
Gabe has become somewhat of a local hero since his family moved to the cliff house, talking seven people down from stepping off the edge. But when Gabe fails to save the eighth, Amanda, a sordid web of secrets begins to unravel, pushing bonds of loyalty and love to the brink. What wouldn't you do for your soulmate?
Find The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth
Discover Sally Hepworth, New York Times bestselling Australian author and hear what she recommends for your Warm Winter Reads:
Find Homecoming by Kate Morton
Find Love and Autism by Kay Kerr
Find The Way From Here by Jane Cockram on OverDrive
Find The One and Only Dolly Jamieson by Lisa Ireland
Dark as Last Night by Tony Birch
In this collection we witness a young girl struggling to protect her mother from her father’s violence, two teenagers clumsily getting to know one another by way of a shared love of music, and a man mourning the death of his younger brother, while beset by memories and regrets from their shared past. Throughout this powerful collection, Birch’s concern for the humanity of those who are often marginalised or overlooked shines bright.
Find Dark as Last Night by Tony Birch
Discover Tony Birch, winner of Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing. Find out what he thinks should be your Warm Winter Reads:
Find Here Until August by Josephine Rowe
Find Throat by Ellen van Neerven
Find An Ordinary Ecstasy by Luke Carman on OverDrive
Find Hold Your Fire by Chloe Wilson
Home Before Night by JP Pomare
As the third wave of the virus hits, all inhabitants of Melbourne are given until 8pm to get to their homes. Wherever they are when the curfew begins, they must live for four weeks and stay within five kilometres of. When Lou's son, Samuel, doesn't arrive home by nightfall, she begins to panic. He doesn't answer his phone. He doesn't message. His social media channels are inactive. Lou is out of her mind with worry, but she can't go to the police, because she has secrets of her own. Secrets that Samuel just can't find out about. Lou must find her son herself and bring him home.
Find Home Before Night by JP Pomare
Discover J.P. Pomare, Melbourne based New Zealand author of the upcoming Disney+ miniseries The Clearing. When it comes to Warm Winter Reads, he recommends:
Find White Noise by Mercedes Mercier
Find Dark Mode by Ashley Kalagian Blunt
Find Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
Find Marshmallow by Victoria Hannan
Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
A quiet, small-town existence. An unexpected Facebook message, jolting her back to the past. A history she’s reluctant to revisit: dark memories and unspoken trauma, bruised thighs and warning knocks on bedroom walls, unfathomable loss. She became a new person a long time ago. What happens when buried stories are dragged into the light?
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Discover Jennifer Down, winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2022. She believes you can curl up with these Warm Winter Reads:
Find The Dancer by Evelyn Juers on OverDrive
Find Dress Rehearsals by Madison Godfrey on OverDrive
Find People Who Lunch by Sally Olds on OverDrive
Find Root & Branch by Eda Gunaydin on OverDrive
A Question of Age: Women Ageing and the Forever Self by Jacinta Parsons
Grappling with ageing is one of the most confronting elements of being a woman. What do we do when our outside self doesn't match our inside self? That old woman staring back at her reflection in the mirror doesn't understand why she feels so young. So how do we adjust our perceptions of getting older? What does it mean to age as a woman? How do we adjust our thinking about being in the world? What is our currency now?
Find A Question of Age: Women Ageing and the Forever Self by Jacinta Parsons
Discover Jacinta Parsons, author, radio broadcaster and host as she guides you to her best Warm Winter Reads:
Find Wildflowers by Peggy Frew
Find Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson
Find We’ve Got This by Eliza Hull
Find Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn
A grizzly bear goes on the run after eating a teenager. A hotel room participates in an unlikely conception. A genetically altered platypus colony puts on an art show. A sabretooth tiger falls for the new addition to his theme park. An airline seat laments its last useful day. A Shakespearean monkey test pilot launches into space. The stories in Here Be Leviathans take us from the storm drains under Las Vegas to the Alaskan wilderness; the rainforests of Queensland to the Chilean coastline.
Find Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn on OverDrive
Discover Chris Flynn, Editor-in-Residence at Museums Victoria and prolific newspaper contributor. When it comes to Warm Winter Reads he offers:
Find Everything Feels Like the End of the World by Else Fitzgerald
Find Every Version of You by Grace Chan
Find The Spiral by Iain Ryan on Overdrive
Find Raised by Wolves by Jess Ho
One Hundred Days by Alice Pung
In a heady whirlwind of independence, lust and defiance, sixteen-year-old Karuna falls pregnant. Incensed, her mother, already over-protective, confines her to their fourteenth-storey housing-commission flat for one hundred days, to protect her from the outside world – and make sure she can’t get into any more trouble. Stuck inside for endless hours, Karuna battles her mother and herself for a sense of power in her own life, as a new life forms and grows within her.
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Discover Alice Pung, winner of the Ethel Turner Prize and Western Australia Premier’s Award with her best ideas for your Warm Winter Reads:
Find The Registrar by Neela Janakiramanan
Find Maggie by Catherine Johns
Find Bad Art Mother by Edwina Preston
Nancy Business by R.W.R McDonald
It's been four months since Tippy, Uncle Pike and Devon were together for Christmas. Now back for the first anniversary of Tippy's father's death, the Nancys are reformed when Riverstone is rocked by an early morning explosion that kills three people and destroys the town hall. A new case is born and the Nancys re-form. Is the accused bomber really guilty? Is there a second bomber? And if so, does that mean a threat to destroy Riverstone Bridge is real? And is asparagus a colour? Once again, it is up to the Nancys to go against the flow and ignore police advice to get to the truth.
Find Nancy Business by R.W.R McDonald
Discover R.W.R McDonald, winner of Best First Novel in 2020 Ngaio Marsh Awards and find out what he thinks you should include in your Warm Winter Reads:
Find A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno
Find Seven Sisters by Katherine Kovacic
Find Dark Deeds Down Under: A Crime and Thriller Anthology by Craig Sisterson
Find After Story by Larissa Behrendt
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