Staff Picks Autumn 2024

Try one of these books recommended by the well-read people of the City of Perth Library.

Updated April 2, 2024
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The Art of Breaking Ice
Mead, Rachael.
Paper Book
The Cast Aways of Harewood Hall
Herbert, Karen.
Paper Book
Josh is a sweet, well-meaning university student with a big heart. After he impulsively steals two research mice from a campus laboratory, he hides them in the basement of the retirement village where he works. The mice are happy and so is Josh, until he discovers that the lab mice could cause a...
Don't Swipe Right
Chilton, L. M.
Paper Book
'Utterly compelling and laugh-out-loud funny.' KATY BRENT, author of How To Kill Men and Get Away With It'As if Bridget Jones found herself in a Scream film. Murderously clever!' RUPERT HOLMESFinding true love can be murder.Gwen Turner, 29, entrepreneur and...
The door-to-door bookstore
Henn, Carsten
Paper Book
The charming international bestseller about books and the power of reading.
The drift
Tudor, C. J.
Paper Book
THE HEART-POUNDING NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHALK MAN AND RICHARD & JUDY PICK THE BURNING GIRLS 'The wildest thriller of the year is three thrillers in one. Buckle up' LINWOOD BARCLAY 'An...
The fox wife
Choo, Yangsze
Paper Book
'Vivid, enigmatic, enchanting' M. L. Rio 'Irresistible' Sunday Times Some people think foxes go around collecting qi, or life force, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . .<...
Hello Beautiful
Napolitano, Ann.
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READ * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! 'BEAUTIFUL, PERCEPTIVE, WISTFUL' Miranda Cowley Heller 'ANN NAPOLITANO'S WRITING IS ASTONISHING' Marian Keyes ...
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White, Kiersten
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this "marvelously creepy thrill ride of a book that keeps twisting until the very end" (Karen M. McManus, author of One of Us Is Lying)  "The suspenseful plot combines elements of...
The Hummingbird Effect
Mildenhall, Kate.
Paper Book
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault. Shortlisted for the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the...
Love objects
Maguire, Emily
Paper Book
A stunning novel of great compassion and insight, from the author of the Stella Prize-shortlisted An Isolated Incident.
Mullumbimby
Lucashenko, Melissa
Paper Book
When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. What she discovers instead is sharp dissent from her teenage daughter, trouble brewing from...
Perilous times
Lee, Thomas D.
Paper Book
IN PERILOUS TIMES LIKE THESE, THE REALM DOESN'T JUST NEED A HERO. IT NEEDS A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOUR. Sir Kay and his fellow knights awake from their mythical slumber whenever Britain has need of them; they fought at Agincourt and at the Somme. But in these...
The Shadow Cabinet
Dawson, Juno.
Paper Book
The follow-up to the sensational #1 Sunday Times bestseller Her Majesty's Royal Coven All is not as it seems within the halls of Her Majesty's Royal Coven... Despite thinking they've thwarted the prophecy, the witches are still reeling from the events of the past few months...
Sharpe's command
Cornwell, Bernard
CD
The sunset years of Agnes Sharp a murder mystery
Swann, Leonie
Paper Book
Untethered
Inoon, Ayesha.
Paper Book
HIGHLY COMMENDED - The ACT Book of the Year 2024 HIGHLY COMMENDED - ACT Literary Awards 2024, Fiction. Winner of the 2022 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize. A finely observed debut novel of a young Muslim woman's experience of immigration to Australia from Sri Lankan-Australian writer Ayesha...
Wildflowers
Frew, Peggy.
Paper Book
A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forget, from the award-winning author of Islands.
Witch King
Wells, Martha.
Paper Book
From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes a remarkable story of power and friendship, of trust and betrayal, and of the families we choose."I didn't know you were a... demon.""You idiot. I'm the demon."Kai's having a long day in Martha Wells' WITCH KING....After being murdered, his...
Women talking : a novel
Toews, Miriam
Paper Book
The internationally bestselling novel based on real events. Now a major motion picture from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand. "This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real...

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