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Reads for your holiday courtesy of the bookworms at WHILEAWAY BOOKSHOP & CAFE

WAKE WE ARE ALL STRONG
SHELLEY BURR
P. CRUMBLE Your local newspaper is online
What really happened to No matter who you are, how big,
young Evie McCreery? how small, how short, how tall,

A searing debut crime novel this book celebrates the power
where the grief and guilt and resilience in all of us, and the

surrounding an unsolved many di erent ways of showing
disappearance still haunt a that….we are all STRONG
small farming community…. Douglas Shire News
and will lead ultimately to a
reckoning. DINNER WITH THE
SCHNABELS
Compulsively readable, with
an unforgettable setting TONI JORDAN
and cast of characters. ings haven’t gone well for Simon

Wake is a powerful, Larsen lately. He adores his wife,
unsparing story of how trauma ripples outward when Tansy, and his children, but since
people’s private tragedies become public property, and how it’s his business failed and he lost the
never too late for the truth to set things right. family home, he can’t seem to get o
the couch. His larger-than-life in-

SHEILAS: BADASS laws, the Schnabels, won’t get o his
case. But as his world continues to
WOMEN OF spin out of control, who can Simon
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY really count on when the chips are
down?
ELIZA REILLY
Life with the Schnabels is messy, chaotic and joyful, and
Dinner with the Schnabels is as heartwarming as it is
An entertaining romp through
outrageously funny.
Australian history that celebrates
the badass sheroes we were never
taught about in school. Cracking
with satirical wit and whole- THE MURDER RULE
hearted admiration, Sheilas is
a cheeky, funny, inspirational DERVLA MCTIERNAN

celebration of the tough-titted ladies who hiked up their ey think I’m a young, idealistic
petticoats and y-kicked down the doors of opportunity for law student, that I’m passionate

modern Australia. about reforming a corrupt and

brutal system. ey think I’m here
to save an innocent man on death

row. ey’re wrong. I’m going to
bury him.
e unmissable standalone from

the best selling author of e Ruin

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