Category Archives: Books and reading

Your August 2022 insight into Australia’s most borrowed eBooks and eAudiobooks on BorrowBox

Posted on September 15, 2022 by Librarians with Altitude

Borrow titles anytime via Blue Mountains Library’s BorrowBox collection or search on the BMCC Library Catalogue and follow the link      

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September eBookClub

Posted on September 1, 2022 by Librarians with Altitude

This month we are reading Happy Hour by Jacqui Byron This month, rather than Ben’s Book Club, we will join Together We Read on Tuesday September 20th, 7.00pm for a chat with the author. Eventbrite: Together We Read featuring Jacquie … Continue reading →

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Carolyn’s Books of the Month – August

Posted on August 25, 2022 by Librarians with Altitude

Best Reads eBooks eAudio Books Best Reads The Trivia Night by Ali Lowe From the outside the parents of the kindergarten class at Darley Heights primary school seem to have it all. Living in the wealthy Sydney suburbs, it’s a … Continue reading →

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2022 NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER AND SHORTLIST

Posted on August 17, 2022 by Librarians with Altitude

2022 – WINNER Leaping into waterfalls:the enigmatic Gillian Mears by Bernadette Brennan The memoirs of Helen Garner, David Williamson AO, Amani Haydar and Lech Blaine, along with biographies of some of Australia’s best-known writers, were shortlisted for the 2022 Award, … Continue reading →

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Carolyn’s Books of the Month – JULY

Posted on July 28, 2022 by Librarians with Altitude

Best Reads The Book of Lost Names by Kristen Hamel  When you are Mine by Michael Robotham Black Widows by Cate Quinn Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave Good Cop Bad Cop by Simon Kernick Dead Ground by M.W.Craven … Continue reading →

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Jennifer Down wins 2022 Miles Franklin Award for ‘Bodies of Light’

Posted on July 20, 2022 by Librarians with Altitude

Jennifer Down has won the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, for her second novel Bodies of Light As one of the youngest authors to be honoured with the Award in its 65-year history – the youngest being Randolph Stow for To the Islands in … Continue reading →

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