Author of the Month

This month's featured author is the 2009 Man Booker International Prize winner as well as numerous Canadian awards.........Alice Munro, author of Love of a Good Woman and Too Much Happiness.

Sadly, Alice doesn't have a website but if you're looking for some interviews check out:

Mistress of all she surveys
Literally speaking with Alice Munro
A conversation with Alice Munro


Top 10 Reads January

Breathless by Dean Koontz
Confessions of a not-so-secret agent by Harry M Miller
Deadly deals by Fern Michaels
Hollywood moon by Joseph Wambaugh
Rainwater by Sandra Brown
Ray: stories of my life by Ray Martin
Too many murders by Colleen McCullough
Too much happiness by Alice Munro
U is for undertow by Sue Grafton
Untamed bride by Stephanie Laurens

Summer Read 2009-10

Join in Victoria's Summer Read. Read a book form the recommended list and suggest one of your own and fill out the entry form to go in the draw to win $1000 worth of bookshop vouchers, and three vouchers for one night's accommodation at a Best Western motel.

This year's featured books are:

• Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam
• Look Who's Morphing by Tom Cho
• Unparalleled Sorrow by Barry Dickins
• Sold by Brendan Gullifer
• The Contract by Brett Hoffman
• This is How by MJ Hyland
• Cooee by Vivienne Kelly
• Infiltration by Colin McLaren
• Lovesong by Alex Miller
• The Lost Mother by Anne Summers

View the Top 100 books as voted by Victorian Librarians (pdf)