Page 110 - Port Douglas Magazine 44

Thinking of selling or leasing

BOOK C LUB your property?

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

NEW RELEASE
BIOGRAPHY ONE HUNDRED
MEMORIAL DAYS YEARS OF BETTY
GERALDINE BROOKS
DEBRA OSWALD
A heartrending and beautiful memoir of
Born into poverty in pre-war
sudden loss and a journey toward peace. In
London and growing up fast during
contemporary life, we are more often met
the Blitz, Betty grabs the chance at a

with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly
bigger life by migrating to Australia.
what happened to Geraldine Brooks when
Sweeping us across the decades with
her partner of more than three decades, Tony
intellect and wit, Betty is the heroine
Horwitz - just sixty years old and, to her
women have been waiting for- taking
knowledge, vigorous and healthy - collapsed
us to the frontlines of the anti –
and died on a Washington, DC street.
war protests and the women’s lib
A spare and profoundly moving memoir movement. Mesmerising and heart
that joins the classics of the genre, Memorial
breaking – a perfect story for this
Days is a portrait of a larger-than-life
moment in time
man and a timeless love between souls
that exquisitely captures the joy, agony and
mystery of life.
YOUNG READER NEW RELEASE
THE SUGARCANE KIDS THE WILD DARK SHORE
& THE EMPTY CAGE
CHARLOTTE MCCONAGHY
CHARLIE ARCHBOLD
A novel of heart stopping twists,
Middle -grade readers can join the dizzying beauty and ferocious love,
Sugarcane kids as they collect clues this is a story about the impossible
and try to solve a mystery in these choices we make to protect the people
bright, fun and captivating Australian we love, even as the world around us is
adventures. ending. At once a gripping mystery, an
Charlie Archbold’s action-packed exquisitely written ode to the natural
world and a taut psychological thriller.
new middle-grade adventures are fun
stories of sleuthing, courageous deeds,
the triumph of good over evil - and the
power of friendship.

CRIME
Charlie Archbold is coming Charlie Madgewick Chelsea Skerri
THE WOLF TREE to Whileaway on 15th June Raine & Horne QLD Raine & Horne QLD
at 2.30pm for a book signing Top 10 Sales Agent 2020 - 2025 Property Manager of the Year 2025
LAURA MCCLUSKEY
On a small island off the coast of Scotland, an isolated community is and a reading from her third

grieving. A body was found at the foot of the lighthouse – an apparent adventure book with the
suicide. As DIs Georgina Lennox and Richard Stewart question the We have your award-winning answers...
Sugarcane Kids.
island’s inhabitants, they discover a village filled with superstition and

secrets. But someone wants those secrets to stay buried. At any cost. Join us in store to meet the
A gripping unputdownable debut crime thriller, perfect for fans of author!
Dervla McTiernan, Ann Cleeves and Hayley Scrivenor. Port Douglas | Mossman
07 4087 1800 | 07 4098 3111
112 Port Douglas Magazine & Travel Planner