Recently purchased/acquired books - 2022 and beyond!

[Marianne]

Collected my reserve from the library:
The Garnett Girls by Georgina Moore

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Just passing on an Aussie website with second hand (good condition) as well as new books at good prices. Book Grocer has an EOFY sale on at the moment, as well as a 20% discount on already reduced prices with EOFY20.

https://bookgrocer.com/collections/al...

An excellent substitute to Book Depository, cheaper than they were as well as quicker (from Melbourne)

[Dale]

Brenda wrote: "Just passing on an Aussie website with second hand (good condition) as well as new books at good prices. Book Grocer has an EOFY sale on at the moment, as well as a 20% discount on already reduced ..."
Thanks for that, Brenda. I have never heard of them before.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

No I hadn't either until a few weeks ago Dale.

[Krystal]

Book Grocer is pretty decent - they do pop-up stores all around Melbourne. They bulk buy stuff from warehouses and sell cheap, so they don't often have all the best sellers but what they do have goes cheap.

I didn't realise they did second hand as well though!

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

I just bought their box of hard cover books for preschoolers. It cost me $100 for 19 top quality books. I was delighted!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Krystal wrote: "Book Grocer is pretty decent - they do pop-up stores all around Melbourne. They bulk buy stuff from warehouses and sell cheap, so they don't often have all the best sellers but what they do have go..."

Yes and they're good quality used which is great!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Phrynne wrote: "I just bought their box of hard cover books for preschoolers. It cost me $100 for 19 top quality books. I was delighted!"

That's fantastic Phrynne! I'm managing to get my Louise Penny in dribs and drabs :) They're heaps better than Brotherhood IMO...

[Marianne]

In the mail today from Text:
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville

[Sharah]

Today I received a book from Better Reading. I'll have to try and read the first book in the series before reading this one. Resurrection: A Jane Halifax novel

[Suz]

Phrynne wrote: "I just bought their box of hard cover books for preschoolers. It cost me $100 for 19 top quality books. I was delighted!"

Your love of books is so good in your line of work, Phrynne. Lucky kids!

[Suz]

Sharah wrote: "Today I received a book from Better Reading. I'll have to try and read the first book in the series before reading this one. Resurrection: A Jane Halifax novel

[bookcover:Resurrec..."

I won his first one, wasn't a fan but everyone else was! Hope you enjoy it, Shara. I won a couple so I need to be reading, not Goodreading.. I am falling behind ;)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Suz wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "I just bought their box of hard cover books for preschoolers. It cost me $100 for 19 top quality books. I was delighted!"

Your love of books is so good in your line of work, Phrynn..."

We have books everywhere in the preschool Suz! I enjoy reading children's books as much as I do my own:)

[Suz]

Phrynne wrote: "Suz wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "I just bought their box of hard cover books for preschoolers. It cost me $100 for 19 top quality books. I was delighted!"

Your love of books is so good in your line of ..."

Those children are very lucky, I wonder if the parents appreciate the importance of this!

[Marianne]

Surprise bookmail from Welbeck Publishing:
The Honeymoon by Kate Gray

[Marianne]

From Salvos for $3.50, another wishlist book:
The Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I loved that one Marianne :)

[Sharah]

Suz wrote: "Sharah wrote: "Today I received a book from Better Reading. I'll have to try and read the first book in the series before reading this one. Resurrection: A Jane Halifax novel

[boo..."

Haha Suz, I'm falling behind too! I keep reading my own books instead of book that i need to review. I haven't read the first Halifax book so I'll see how I go with this one.

[Marianne]

Collected my reserve from the library:
The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf by Alexander McCall Smith

[Marianne]

I was returning two borrows at the library and couldn't resist browsing the winter book sale, came home with these two at the princely sum of 50c each:
The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon
Don't Look Back by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz

[Kim]

Just catching up with logging the books I purchased from various charity shops and boot sales when on holiday in Cornwall:-

Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge
What Happened on Floor 34? by Caroline Corcoran
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
Little Deaths by Emma Flint
The Beauty of the End by Debbie Howells
Four by Andy Jones
The Perfect Escape by Leah Konen
The Dark Room by Jonathan Moore
Morgan's Passing by Anne Tyler
The Secrets He Kept by Jackie Walsh
Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Wow! Good work Kim! Some great titles there :)

[Marianne]

I loved Emily Spurr's first novel, so thrilled to find #2, Beatrix and Fred in my mailbox today.

[Marianne]

Collected my reserve from the library:
Reckless by Marele Day

[Marianne]

My Boomerang books order came today. The library and NetGalley are all well and good, but some books are keepers:
How to Find Your Way in the Dark
A Tidy Ending
Mother's Boy
Bad Actors
Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

[Suz]

Marianne wrote: "My Boomerang books order came today. The library and NetGalley are all well and good, but some books are keepers:
How to Find Your Way in the Dark
A Tidy Ending
[boo..."

Glad to see Mother's Boy there, Marianne. And the novella's in one. I've only found them on audio.

[Marianne]

Collected my reserve from the library:
The Bone Hacker by Kathy Reichs

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I'm looking forward to this one Marianne :)

[Marianne]

On the way home from a memorial for a friend, stopped at the street library and scored A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving on the strength of Liz's review.
Also The Wrong Woman by J.P. Pomare

[Karren]

The Orphans by Fiona McIntosh the kindle edition is on sale for 99cents.

[Marianne]

In the mail today from Text, Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived by Tim Flannery
and from the street library, The Rush by Michelle Prak

[Margot]

Received an email from Booktopia today with a 10% discount for my birthday which is next Saturday. How could I resist! So my present to myself is:-

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
You Are Here by David Nicholls - not published until 30/04/24
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Still waiting for books from my two previous orders which are not being published October.
The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves is being delivered by Australia Post today

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I received The Raging Storm as well today - two of them actually! I pre-ordered twice!!

[Krystal]

Brenda wrote: "I received The Raging Storm as well today - two of them actually! I pre-ordered twice!!"

Whoops! I guess one will make a good gift??

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

No, I'll take it in for a refund - and pick up another one at the same time! Because hey, I need more books ;)

[Marianne]

Picked up Forever Home by Graham Norton at Salvos for $4, and also told the very grateful book lady there about NetGalley. She was busy putting nice clear letters of the alphabet between each section, and agreed that Vinnies colour sorting is utterly crazy.

[Marianne]

Collected my reserve from the library:
The Days Toppled Over by Vidya Madabushi

[Marianne]

At Salvos today for $3.50:
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone

[Sharah]

Over the last week I have been lucky enough to receive a few new books. From Good Reading Magazine Vertigo and Summer of Blood and from Better Reading The Puppets of Spelhorst and An Unexpected Party

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Great job Sharah!!

[Marianne]

In the mail today from Ultimo Press:
The Paris Cooking School by Sophie Beaumont

[Margot]

From Booktopia yesterday Cult by Camilla Läckberg and Henrik Fexeus
Sequel to Trapped

[Marianne]

A bit of book whispering at Salvos:
Desperation in Death and
Encore in Death
$4 each

[Kenneth]

I picked up a copy of Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion on Tuesday after a trip to the Perth Royal Show. Yesterday, I bought two more: Testament: The new Ancient-Egyptian epic from the bestselling Master of Adventure, Wilbur Smith and The Running Grave.

Once again, I am out of space for new books but keep buying them anyway.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Haha! Don't we all Kenneth!! Good pick ups :)

[Margot]

Received today from Booktopia The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
and
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

[Marianne]

In the mail today from A&U, Jack Heath's Kill Your Husbands

[Jane]

Marianne wrote: "In the mail today from A&U, Jack Heath's Kill Your Husbands"

Me too Marianne. Love these A&U give-aways - should our husbands be worried?!

[Rowan]

I think there are probably some very nervous husbands out there right now Haha

I'm looking forward to reading Jack Heath's latest too!

[Margot]

A couple of books to look out for in 2024

Vera Number 11
The Dark Wives
by Ann Cleeves
Expected on: 29 August 2024
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/...

The Moonlight Market (2024)
A novel by Joanne Harris
27 June 2024
978-1399604758
Publisher Orion Publishing Group
Publication Date 27 June 2024
978-1399604758