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BOOK C LUB

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

FICTION
HISTORICAL
REMARKABLY BRIGHT FICTION
CREATURES
THE FROZEN
RIVER
SHELBY VAN PELT
After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began
working the night shift at the Sowell Bay ARIEL LAWHON

Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping A gripping mystery, a touching
busy has always helped her cope, which she’s love story and a fascinating
been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, account of the life and times of
mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound women. Brilliantly atmospheric,
over thirty years ago. with characters who leap of
Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly the page, a beautifully rendered

Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the landscape and an icy tension
aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can that pulls you through each

imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his chapter. A Whileaway staff
eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a favourite!
remarkable friendship with Tova.
Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what
happened the night Tova’s son disappeared.
And now Marcellus must use every trick his old
invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth
for her before it’s too late.

NEW RELEASE BIOGRAPHY
DIRT POOR ISLANDERS DATSUN ANGEL

WINNIE DUNN ANNA BROINOWSKI
This is a potent, mesmerising novel Datsun Angel is a turbo-charged

adventure into the savage heart of
that opens our eyes to the brutal
1980s Australia: a place completely
fractures navigated when growing
alien, yet frighteningly similar,
up between two cultures and the
to today. Based on her battered
importance of understanding all the travel diary, Datsun Angel is a
many pieces of yourself. A fresh and savage, darkly funny memoir of sex,
vital new voice. drugs and violence-fuelled adventure
through the brutal 1980s Australian
outback. It is a feminist On the
Road, told through a #MeToo filter.

YOUNG READER
WURRTOO – THE WOMBAT WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH THE SKY

TYLISSA ELISARA

Described as an Indigenous Blinky Bill meets Winnie the Pooh, this heart-warming and beautifully
illustrated middle-grade novel follows Wurrtoo the wombat on his quest to marry the love of his
life, the sky, while facing his fears and learning the importance of friendship along the way. A story
of the power of friendship, bravery and growth beyond comfort zones, for readers aged 9 and up.

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