SUMMER READING
Grab a good book
GARDENING IN YOUR NINETIES By Doreen Wendt-Weir
Summer holidays are the perfect excuse to sit back and relax with a book, or, if you are looking for a unique Christmas gift, it’s hard to go past giving a good read while supporting a local author. Here is some inspiration from southeast Queensland writers.
CRUCIAL STEP By Ian Laver After his father’s suicide, Theo Perry travels to Malaysia on a quest to discover the truth about the man who disappeared after the Vietnam war. From touchdown, Theo’s world begins to unravel. Events, as violent as the tropical storms that sweep the Malay Peninsula, accelerate when he becomes infatuated with a beautiful Muslim woman and is propelled into a dark underworld where his western values count for nothing.
His youthful bravado crumbles – the closer the truth, the more tangled things become. Mysterious friends – and enemies – know more about him than they should. An ancient tribal woman appears and seems to guide him. Theo realises, in this different world, life and death decisions are on the razor’s edge. Laver, an award-winning writer, takes the reader on a backpacking journey of mystery, adventure and suspense. Available from Noosa Arts and Crafts, Noosaville; The Book Shop, Caloundra; and Berkelouw Books, Eumundi; or as paperback or eBook from all online bookstores such as Amazon, Booktopia, Barnes and Noble, Book Depository, Fishpond, Ingram, Apple iTunes/iBooks and Kindle.
Doreen Wendt-Weir made good use of her time in isolation to write the sequel to her successful book Sex in Your Seventies. The 93-year-old tells of her efforts (post sex life) at gardening, sharing old-fashioned recipes as she harvests her vegetables. As she works, her thoughts wander to her long life. She talks of childhood on the dairy farm on the Logan River, and remembers her many subsequent adventures as a midwife, hitchhiker, traveller, guest speaker, and as “Dear Doreen” on TV. Through it all, is woven a love story which may, or may not be, resolved. Doreen was attending Brisbane Girls Grammar School when the war intervened in 1943, but went to become a trained nurse. At 71, she was accepted to Griffith University, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree. Available at sexinyourseventies. com
DREAMWEAVER By Gregory Cahill Orphaned at birth, Charlie Shepherd was moved between foster homes until he was 18. The one constant was a strange recurring dream he experienced throughout his life. In his vivid and unsettling dreams, he is swimming through shadowy freshwater caves, deep beneath the desert in Central Australia. Sometimes the dreams were peaceful, but mostly they were frightening, especially during his childhood. Though he never knew his parents or where he came from, he always felt there was a deeper meaning – if only he could find it. An invitation to scuba dive in Central Australia with two friends is too tempting to ignore. Can Charlie unravel the meanings of his dreams down in the caves and discover his past, and his future? Available at inhousebookstore. com.au/products/dreamweaver. The eBook is at amazon.com.au/dp/ B08PF24TTL
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