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‘I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.’
 
- Emily Dickinson
We are saddened by the impact of devastating bushfires across the country and are aware that some of our members have been affected. Our thoughts are with all those impacted at this time.  

Please note that due to the bushfires, Australia Post has advised that deliveries may be delayed. We will endeavour to ensure we allow enough time for books to be sent, but please contact us if you have not received your books one week before your meeting. 
Literary News
This is shaping up to be an exciting year for new releases. Bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe Trent Dalton’s second novel All Our Shimmering Skies comes out in June. The author of Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey, is back with Honeybee in late 2020, while Kate Grenville produces A Room Made of Leaves in July. We’re also looking forward to Tom Kenneally’s The Dickens Boy (April), Dervla McTiernan’s The Good Turn (March) and Kate Mildenhall’s second novel The Mother Fault.

From further afield, Hilary Mantel is releasing the conclusion to her Wolf Hall trilogy The Mirror and the Light in March, and Elena Ferrante’s latest The Lying Life of Adults will be published in English in June.

The Costa Book Awards have been announced with category winners including Jonathan Coe (Middle England) and The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins. The overall Costa Book of the Year winner will be announced on 28 January.
Book Groups News
A reminder that Book Group enrolments for 2020 are due on 31 January. Thank you to everyone who has submitted their enrolments forms so far. Our enrolments team is working to process these as soon as possible. Enrolment forms can be downloaded from our website. Enrolments can also be made over the phone by calling (03) 9652 0611.   
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Our Favourite Award Winners from 2019
Last year was a great year for books, with some notable titles receiving prizes. Here’s a few of our favourites from both Australian and national literary awards.
Book Groups Reaction of the Month
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

We all loved the exquisite writing of this completely layered suspenseful novel. This book beautifully wove the events of a young teen group of four close friends with their more complex life as mothers of young families and as older ladies. The crux of the story involves the flawed relationship between Vivi, one of the four friends and her oldest daughter Sidda – told as both Sidda's childhood memories of a flawed mother and the older adult Jidda trying to understand her childhood.
In the process it explores so many (flawed and damaged) mother-daughter relationships, alcoholism and mental health impacts, passive or distant fathers, expectations of Southern American life and racial prejudices, religious fanaticism –  just to name a few! We laughed and cried. Some found the ending a little 'twee'. Was the bond between the four friends believable? So much better than the movie 'based' on the book.

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Giveaways
The Overstory
by Richard Powers

 
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is brought back to life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.
This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2019.

Courtesy of Penguin Random House
Anyone is welcome to enter! Simply email us at competition@cae.edu.au and tell us your favourite prize-winning book. Include your name and postal address. Entries close Wednesday, 29 January 2020. Winners will be notified and answers may be used on social media.
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