Love to Read Local - Writing WA Literary Map
Love to Read Local Week 2021, 3–11 June
Love to Read Local Week is a new state-wide initiative by Writing WA, to celebrate Western Australia’s many, many wonderful writers and illustrators, and the books they create. Through an exciting program of bespoke events and activities, their mission is to connect Western Australian readers with Western Australian books.
You can celebrate Love to Read Local Week by taking a journey to your local bookshops. Collect a stamp for each book purchased from a participating bookshop. Collect three stamps, fill in your details and drop your entry into the in-store box for a chance to win an overnight stay for two people at DoubleTree by Hilton Perth Waterfront.
Get reading!!
Tiny White Lies by Fiona Palmer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Two families escape the rat race to holiday at a remote coastal retreat, but what lies are they telling themselves and each other? The new family drama by beloved Australian storyteller Fiona PalmerAshley has recently lost her husband. Daughter Emily is being bullied online.Best friend Nikki is holding ...Show more
My Home Broome by Tamzyne Richardson
$17.95 AUD
Category: Children
My Home Broome is a beautiful new picture book that captures the heart and soul of the unique multicultural community of Broome in Australias north west. With a poem written by nine year old Tamzyne Richardson as its centerpiece, My Home Broome is a rich collage of interesting facts and vibrant artwork ...Show more
Black Light by K.A. Bedford
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Mystery
Ruth Black is an English novelist left widowed by the mysterious death of her husband during the Great War. She immigrates to Australia and settles in the sleepy coastal town of Pelican River to repair her broken heart and work on her next novel. But her quiet life is thrown into disarray when Aunt Juli ...Show more
Staircase to the Moon by Bronwyn Houston
$19.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
How does a young girl with a yearning for adventure get to the moon? Why, she climbs the staircase of course! In this book, a young girl and her grandfather sneak away from home one night in a bid to climb the staircase to the moon.
Salt Story: Of Seadogs and Fisherwomen by Sarah Drummond
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In this warm, lively, salty account of living on and by the sea, Drummond writes of fishing and feuds, of life as an apprentice fisherwoman, and of her secret desire to snare a handsome Fisheries officer. Salt Story pays homage to sea-dogs, fisherwomen, oystermen and storytellers everywhere.
The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
"Subtle, disarming and insightful" Rosalie HamA magnificent novel about fate, Australia and what it means to be human... it just happens to be narrated by a galah called Lucky. It's 1969 and a remote coastal town in Western Australia is poised to play a pivotal part in the moon landing. Perched on the r ...Show more
The Petticoat Parade: Madam Monnier and the Roe Street Brothels by Leigh Straw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Petticoat Parade, a true crime biography and social history of Josie de Bray's life is the latest book from award-winning author, Leigh Straw.Josie de Bray, aka Madam Monnier, aka Marie Louise Monnier, was a brothel madam who owned most of Roe Street, Perth from WWI up to the 1940s. A returned soldi ...Show more
The Sound by Sarah Drummond
$27.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
The Sound is set in the 1820s, in the violent and lawless world just before the English established colonial law in Western Australia. It is a historical fiction about the men of many nations who made their way across the southern waters of Australia from Tasmania to WA, plundering seal colonies, and st ...Show more
Koombana Days by Annie Boyd
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The elegant, ultra-modern S.S. Koombana arrived in Western Australia in March 1909. After only three years of Nor'-West service, the ship and her entire complement disappeared in a late-summer cyclone off the Pilbara coast. The vessel has never been found and the tragedy remains unexplained. Koombana Da ...Show more
Under a Bilari Tree I Born by Bilari Smith Alice
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Alice Bilari Smith lived in the Pilbara, on stations and in the bush, on government reserves and in towns. Narrowly avoiding removal from her family by 'the Welfare', life on the stations taught her to cook and launder, sew and clean, shoe horses, chop wood and milk cows. As a young married woman she ad ...Show more
Red Can Origami by Madelaine Dickie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Ava has just landed a job as a reporter in Gubinge, a tiny tropical town in Australia's north.Gubinge has a way of getting under the skin. Ava is hooked on the thrill of going hand-to-hand with barramundi, awed by country, and stunned by pindan sunsets. But a bitter collision between a native title grou ...Show more
Red Dirt Country by Fleur McDonald
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Series: Detective Dave Burrows Ser.
Detective Dave Burrows returns in another suspenseful rural crime novel from bestselling author Fleur McDonald.