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
Ashes of the sun
Wexler, Django
Paper Book
'Ashes of the Sun is fantasy at its finest' Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the Wyld Four hundred years ago, a cataclysmic war cracked the world open. Amid the ashes, the Dawn Republic now stands guard over lands littered with eldritch relics and cursed by...
The Cast Aways of Harewood Hall
Herbert, Karen.
Paper Book
Josh is a sweet, well-meaning university student working part-time in aged care with a secret hidden in the retirement village basement - two research mice that he stole from a campus laboratory. What starts as a kind gesture sets off a chain reaction of mishaps with the worst one of all, 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
A crashed coach full of students. A stuck cable car full of strangers. An isolated chalet full of friends. A killer snowstorm outside. Inside one group, a killer. But which one? And why is no rescue coming? How did they become trapped? And what were...
Fox Wife
Choo, Yangsze.
Paper Book
'Vivid, enigmatic, enchanting' M. L. Rio'Irresistible' Sunday TimesSome 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 . . .Manchuria, 1908:...
Hello Beautiful
Napolitano, Ann.
Paper Book
Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls are seen as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Italian-American neighbourhood, bringing loving chaos with them wherever they go. William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much...
Hide
White, Kiersten
Paper Book
A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this dark supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White, perfect for fans of Stephen King and SQUID GAME. The challenge- spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get...
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 farm 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 Ellen, trouble brewing from...
Perilous times
Lee, Thomas D.
Paper Book
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.
Paper Book
SHARPE IS BACK. The brand new novel from Bernard Cornwell in the global bestselling Sharpe series. If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe . . . And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to...
The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp : The unmissable cosy crime sensation for fans of Richard Osman
Swann, Leonie.
Paper Book
A quirky group of seniors attempts to solve one murder while covering up another-with the help of an enterprising tortoise-in this twisty, darkly funny mystery from the author of Three Bags Full.The unmissable cosy crime sensation for fans of Richard Osman.
The twilight world
Herzog, Werner
Paper Book
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War II In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His...
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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