Love to Read Local - Writing WA Literary Map
Love to Read Local Week 2021, 3–11 June
Love to Read Local Week is a new state-wide initiative by Writing WA, to celebrate Western Australia’s many, many wonderful writers and illustrators, and the books they create. Through an exciting program of bespoke events and activities, their mission is to connect Western Australian readers with Western Australian books.
You can celebrate Love to Read Local Week by taking a journey to your local bookshops. Collect a stamp for each book purchased from a participating bookshop. Collect three stamps, fill in your details and drop your entry into the in-store box for a chance to win an overnight stay for two people at DoubleTree by Hilton Perth Waterfront.
Get reading!!
Lighthouse Girl by Dianne Wolfer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
Fay lives alone with her father on bleak, windswept Breaksea Island, but her isolated life takes a dramatic turn with the outbreak of World War 1. Based on the true story of Fay Howe, this gentle tale brings to life the hardships of those left at home during the war. Drawing on fascinating archival mate ...Show more
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
$23.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: very good
A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress ...Show more
True West by David Whish-Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Crime | Reading Level: 2 Crime
Western Australia, 1988. After betraying the Knights bikie gang, seventeen-year-old Lee Southern flees to the city with nothing left to lose. Working as a rogue tow truck driver in Perth, he is captured by right-wing extremists whose combination of seduction and blackmail keeps him on the wrong side of ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Cristy Burne
$14.99 AUD
Category: Junior Readers | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8
With Emmy daring him on, Isaac's life gets more and more exciting. But when things go horribly wrong on their secret midnight adventure, they both wonder whether this time they've gone too far . . .
Boy on a Wire by Jon Doust
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Depicting the full spectrum of adolescent alienation, this engaging, coming-of-age narrative is a humorous blend of novel and memoir. A sensitive, quick-witted boy from a small town, Jack Muir adores his mother, yearns for affection from his father, and lives in the shadow of his accomplished brother. S ...Show more
Fromage by Sally Scott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Mystery
Journalist Alex Grant is enjoying the last days of her summer holiday in Croatia when she is accosted by an old school friend, Marie Puharich, and her odious brother, Brian, both there to attend the funeral of their fearsome grandfather's two loyal retainers. The only upside of the whole sorry business ...Show more
Stepping off: Rewilding and Belonging to the South-West by Thomas M. Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
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Rubik by Elizabeth Tan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Elena Rubik can't seem to stay dead. She persists: as a set of corneas, as a newsletter subscriber, as a member of fanfiction forums. Her best friend Jules Valentine meanwhile is unwittingly inveigled into an indie-film turned corporate branding stunt. When Jules leaks information about the true story ...Show more
Refuge by Richard Rossiter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Quentin `Tinny' Thompson and his German neighbour, Greta, have at least one thing in common. In their tin sheds close to the coast, they are attempting to live out of the firing line of modern society. Tinny's sons are growing up and one of them, Rock, wants to head to the city and live with his mother, ...Show more
Bauhuas on the Swan : Elise Blumann, an Emigre Artist in Western Australia, 1938-1948 by Sally Quin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
German artist Elise Blumann (1897-1990) arrived in Western Australia in 1938, having fled Nazi Germany in 1934. With her husband and two sons she set up home on the banks of the Swan River, and began to paint. Over the next ten years she produced a series of portraits set against the river and the India ...Show more
Cape to Cape Track Guidebook - 9th Edition by Jane Scott; Ray Forma (Designed by, Index by, Editor)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australia, NZ & Oceania
Detailed descriptions of the Cape to Cape Walk Track, the Meelup Trail and many short walks in the Leeuwin Naturaliste National Park, 21 full-page 1:25 000 up-to-date maps covering all of the coast from Dunsborough to Augusta, and most of the Leeuwin Naturaliste National Park. The maps show the Cape to ...Show more
Tiny White Lies by Fiona Palmer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Two families escape the rat race to holiday at a remote coastal retreat, but what lies are they telling themselves and each other? The new family drama by beloved Australian storyteller Fiona PalmerAshley has recently lost her husband. Daughter Emily is being bullied online.Best friend Nikki is holding ...Show more