Last month’s most popular books & more
Coordinator Mary has been crunching numbers!
The 6 most popular and borrowed Non Fiction reads in the last month
- Tolstoy: a Russian Life by Rosalind Bartlett
- Look after your Feet: some keen observations on the unexpected advantages and indignities of getting older by Rosalie Ham
- The Road to Little Dribbling: more notes from a small island by Bill Bryson
- Crossing the Line: Australia’s secret history in the Timor Sea by Kim McGrath
- Cultural Amnesia: notes in the margin of my time by Clive James
- Burn the Haystack: decode dating, torch the duds and make room for the men who matter by Jennie Young
The 6 most popular and borrowed Fiction reads in the last month
- Three reasons for Revenge by Dervla McTiernan
- Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
- I made this just for you by Chris Ames
- Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer
- Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
- The Wild Beneath by Kelly Anderson
Exit Party: Emily St John Mandel
Book Review from Volunteer Rebeccah
Emily St John Mandel’s latest book Exit Party speaks very much to our time. A novel of ideas, it extrapolates from the disruptions that exist now in the USA. It begins only a few years into the future after some kind of collapse or civil war. Mandel creates parallel versions of post breakdown United States, with baffling links between the two that play out across the world.
This is speculative fiction with a mystery at its core, and it is also a very compelling human story. The settings and characters are beautifully developed, and the story pulls the reader through darkness and light as the mystery is unravelled and lives follow their interlinked paths.
