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Feb, 2019

Rosie and Don are back

By: dalbywordpress | Tags: Australiana, books, dalby library, education, great reads, New Releases, review | Comments: 0

Lovers of The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect will be happy to see that Graeme Simsion has released a third book The Rosie Result featuring the unlikely couple of Rosie and Don Tillman. Rosie and Don have moved back to Melbourne after a decade in New York and their son Hudson is now 11 years old. Hudson is struggling at school: he’s socially awkward, not fitting in and his parents suspect he has Autism. Don, having spent a lifetime trying to fit in and manage his own idiosyncrasies, embarks on The Hudson Project in […]

Feb, 2019

The Lost Man – Jane Harper’s new release her best yet

By: dalbywordpress | Tags: australia, Australiana, Book, books, crime, Jane Harper, library, mystery, outback, reading, relationships, review | Comments: 0

Jane Harper has provided the Australian Mystery & Crime genre with another fantastic story set in the very heart of the outback. Based on a fictional outback station near, a town strikingly similar to Birdsville, two brothers attempt to come to grips with the unusual death of their third brother, and attempt to unearth how it this tragedy occurred. Their brother Cam has been found dead beneath an old stockman’s grave at an isolated spot on the 30,000 acre property. His brother Lee, already an outcast from the closest town, […]