Spotlight: Happy Mother’s Day & Make It!
Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful mums, step-mums, grandmas, aunties, carers, and animal mums out there for Sunday. We appreciate the beauty you bring to the world.
May’s first Make It session will be card holders on Wednesday, May 14 at 3.30pm. They can be used for a myriad of card games, including the next friendly (or not-so-friendly) family game of Uno. Call us on 6740 2190 to book.
Spotlight: Cooking section
If you’re making Mum breakfast in bed this weekend, you better explore our cooking books.
We have titles on baking, international cuisines, simple family dinners, vegan/vegetarian meals, delectable desserts, barbecue bonanzas, and just about every culinary offering in between. Look for the hot pink bands on the spines in non-fiction.
Spotlight: New books
Amy Matthews has penned Best, First and Last (AF MAT).
On a trip to the Inca Trail with her mother and grandmother, workaholic Heather Russo meets the charming Owen. Just as things start get interesting, the grandmother starts spilling family secrets that could send them over the edge. At that altitude and with their personal lives in tatters, what could possibly go wrong?
Hover Car Racer (YAF REI) is new to graphic novels.
Jason Chaser has won himself a place at the International Race School, where racers either make it on to the Pro Circuit – or they crash and burn. But he’s younger than the other racers. His car, the Argonaut, is older. And on top of that, someone is trying to sabotage him. Jason isn’t just fighting for his place on the starting line, he’s racing for his life.
From writer Sophie Austin comes The Lamplighter’s Bookshop (AFR AUS).
When Evelyn Seaton answers an advertisement for an assistant at a forgotten bookshop in York, she is not the only one with something to hide. There she meets the enigmatic and prickly William Morton, an aspiring writer keeping secrets of his own. But when the walls that Evelyn has built around herself start to crumble, there is only one person she can turn to…
Garrison Keillor said that “a book is a gift you can open again and again,” so visit us at 291 Conadilly Street to treat yourself (or Mum!)
