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!!
Return Ticket by Jon Doust
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
It's 1972. When hot-headed, impetuous Jack Muir gets off the ship in Durban, he fails to get back on. Instead, he sails into misadventure, fleeing the stifling town of Genoralup to try to lose himself in South Africa at the height of apartheid. But the past has a way of catching up with you, and soon Ja ...Show more
Grace by Robert Drew
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Some relevant facts about Grace Malloy. Apart from being named after a 100 000-year-old skeleton, she was twenty-nine and for much of the past three years she'd been hiding from an erotomaniac. Physically and emotionally besieged, Grace attempts to claw back from her personal territory by abandoning her ...Show more
Sister Heart by Sally Morgan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
A young Aboriginal girl is taken from the north of Australia and sent to an institution in the distant south. There, she slowly makes a new life for herself and, in the face of tragedy, finds strength in new friendships. Poignantly told from the child s perspective, Sister Heart affirms the power of fam ...Show more
Dark Tales from the Long River: A Bloody History of Australia's North-West Frontier by David Price
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
From searches for serial killers and missing persons to the persecution of migrants and Aboriginal people, David Price takes us back to a time when the line between lawmakers and criminals was lightly drawn. Based on a wide array of contemporaneous accounts of life in the Gascoyne, these sometimes shock ...Show more
True Country by Kim Scott
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Examining ideas of belonging and being an outsider, this story follows Billy, a young school teacher and drifter who arrives in Australia's remote far north in search of his past, his Aboriginal roots, and his future. Through masterful language and metaphor, as well as a sophisticated tone that is both ...Show more
The Windy Season by Sam Carmody
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Sam Carmody is a writer and award-winning musician from the mid-west town of Geraldton on the central coast of Western Australia. He is also a previous recipient of the Mary Grant Bruce Award as part of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) National Literary Awards and his short fiction and non-fic ...Show more