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

NEW RELEASE BIOGRAPHY
THE BOOKBINDER DID I EVER TELL YOU
OF JERICHO THIS?
SAM NEILL
PIP WILLIAMS
In this beautiful sweeping novel, Sam Neill’s unmissable memoir
Pip Williams explores another is revealing, heart-warming and
little-known slice of history often hilarious, as he recounts the
unpredictable turns of fortune that
seen through women’s eyes.

have de ned his life and career. is

Evocative, subversive and rich
with unforgettable characters, is the work of a natural storyteller
this is a story about knowledge who is a superb observer of other
- who gets to make it, who people, and who writes with love and
warmth about his family.
gets to access it and what is
lost when it is withheld.

NEW RELEASE YOUNG READER
GO AS A RIVER SPELLHOUND

LIAN TANNER
SHELLEY READ
What do a minch-wiggin, a
On a cool autumn morning, Victoria Queen and a rather large magical
Nash heads into town from her pup have in common? ey need

family’s farm in the Colarado to nd the dragon that has turned

countryside, pulling a rickety wagon their worlds upside-down, even if

lled with late-season peaches. As it means revealing all they want
she nears a crossroads, a stranger to keep hidden. A delightfully
stops to ask her the way. She makes pleasing whimsical fantasy novel
the decision to walk with him, “Go for readers who love Cressida
as a river”, he tells her as they part Cowell and Katrina Nannestead.
ways.
So begins a mesmerising story of the
split-second decision and considered

acts that make up the ow of one whileaway.com.au
woman’s tumultuous life.

Travel Fiction
APHRODITEʼS BREATHE

SUSAN JOHNSON
Meet eighty- ve-year-old Barbara and her sixty-two-year-old writer daughter Susan who asked her

mother, on a whim, if she wanted to accompany her to live on the Greek island of Kythera. What

follows is a moving unravelling of the mother-daughter relationship told in irresistible prose. is
is a strikingly original, funny and forensic examination of love and nding home amid the stories of

the people, olives and wonders of the birthplace of Aphrodite.