After World War I, Sam Simoneaux returns to New Orleans determined to leave mayhem and destruction behind, and to start anew with his wife years after losing a son to illness. But when a little girl disappears from the department store where he works, he has no recourse but to join her musician parents on a Mississippi excursion steamboat, hoping to unearth clues somewhere along the river. More...
In a fading English mansion, a father, wracked by war and loss, is raising three daughters alone. But in the summer of 1950, a series of inexplicable events strikes Buckshaw, the family home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. More...
Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yearns for her mother, and for forgiveness. More...
The Banjo Book Club is a reading group that meets on the third
Wednesday of each month at 7.00pm. The next book up for discussion
is 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' by Mohsin
Hamid.
Rae Litting was born in
Melbourne. She completed an arts degree at Sydney University and became a
teacher. The Kidnap of Alice McGilvray is Rae's first published novel. Rae was a
finalist in the NSW Writers' Centre and New Holland Publishers' Genre Fiction
Award. Rae now lives in Epping.
More than a year has passed since Marjan, Bahar, and Layla, the beautiful Iranian Aminpour sisters, sought refuge in the Irish town of Ballinacroagh. Opening the Babylon Cafe, they charmed the locals with their warm hearts and delectable Persian cuisine. More...
This is the true story of the murder of Artemio Bruni, a peasant farmer in the mountains of Casentino, North Eastern Tuscany, in the winter of 1907. More...
