Looking for a new book to kickstart your year?  Look no further we’ve got you covered. 

Here are a few of our reader’s book recommendations that you may not have heard of. 

Ruth Fontaine – I’m reading We of the Never Never atm. Not sure if it’s still well known. I’ve read it before but awhile back and love it. I love reading how they lived nearly 120 years ago. 

Elaine Rosenberg - The Abbey Girls Series by Elsie J Oxenham.

Maryika Welter - The courage to be disliked. … Furmitake Kogan, Ichiro Kishimi.

Janice Stewart - A Fortunate Life by Albert Facey

Suzanne Midson - On Our Selection by Steele Rudd. Read it when I was about 10/12. Best laugh ever. Australian humour at its best.

Julie Anderson – Episode of Sparrows by Rumor Goddin 

Nancie Golsby - The Half Burned Tree by Dympna Cusack

June Maynard - Sahara, by Paula Constant. Preceded by Slow Journey South. A thrilling, actual account of her adventure.

Peter Rayner – Enforcer by Caesar Campbell

Meg Milton - I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven

Edie Dore - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon.

Christine Cornforth – A Grief Observed by CS Lewis. 

Wendy Oliver – The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

Do you have any other recommendations that we might have missed?

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