By Brittany Riley, Gunnedah Shire Library
Spotlight: Library & Information Week!
Library & Information Week runs from 28 July – 3 August 2025, and there’s no greater time to venture into reading with this year’s theme being ‘To Read or Not to Read: Literacy Matters.’ Whether it’s a library in your school, community, university, hospitals, cultural or law institutions, this week is an opportunity to learn more about what the important role Libraries play in our local communities.
Spotlight: Kill or thrill?
Sick of watching crime show repeats? Come visit our popular Mystery/Thriller fiction shelves to find your next dark read!
We stock the greats like David Baldacci, Lee Child, Karin Slaughter (the surname says it all), Harlan Coben, plus many, many more spine-tingling pen masters.
Warning: we’re not responsible for lost sleep if something goes bump in the night…
Spotlight: New books
The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club by Martha Hall Kelly (AF KEL) is a dual timeline novel inspired by true events.
Fresh from her mother’s funeral, Mari arrives on Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts to study under the enigmatic painter Elizabeth Devereux. But she soon realises that her relationship to the island runs much deeper…
Explore the diverse arts of the Moghul court with The Great Mughals (954 STR) by Susan Stronge.
From lifelike portraits to exquisite, jewelled gold vessels, stunning carpets through to focused object studies, each chapter captures the distinct character of each emperor’s reign, revealing surprising narratives about a dynasty famed for the Taj Mahal.
Sash Bischoff has penned Sweet Fury (AFT BIS), a fictitious ode to the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
In preparation for a leading role, film star Lila Crayne moves to New York with her fiancé. She begins work with charming and accomplished therapist Jonah Gabriel, but soon, her manicured life begins to unravel – and Jonah is just the man to fix it. It won’t be long before reputations and lives are in danger of being irrevocably destroyed . . .
If you’re in need of friends, come to the library, because as Ernest Hemingway said, “There is no friend as loyal as a book!”
