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“Literature is my Utopia”
- Helen Keller
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With the ongoing COVID-19 situation, our warehouse provider Yooralla have focused their services on caring for their at-risk clients. So we can continue to deliver books to our groups, we have changed providers to Kings Warehouse. We thank Yooralla for their service and wish them all the best caring for their communities.
We are preparing to resume sending books from mid-November and are in the process of contacting all groups to make arrangements.
Check out our catalogue in the new Book Groups Online. All members will receive access details later this year and secretaries will receive further information about accessing Book Groups Online for their selections next year.
If you have any queries, please contact us at bookgroups@cae.edu.au. Our customer service team is currently working from home, so if you would prefer to discuss your query on the phone, please provide your phone number in the email and we will call you back as soon as possible.
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The Davitt Awards for the best crime writing by women have been announced with winners including Banking Bad by Adele Ferguson and Meg Mundell’s The Trespassers. In other literary crime news, the Ned Kelly Awards shortlist has been announced. Titles include Christian White’s The Wife and the Widow [B2334] and Dervla McTiernan’s The Scholar.
The inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize shortlist has also been announced, with titles including Sienna Brown’s Master of My Fate, Catherine Jinks’ Shepherd and Mirandi Riwoe’s Stone Sky, Gold Mountain. The winner will be announced in November.
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to poet Louise Glück.
Check out the online program for Word for the Word National Non-Fiction Festival, running from 20-22 November.
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Thanks to Syndal 1 for sharing their experience with us.
Our Book Group, being unable to meet physically, has been meeting via Zoom.
We have been purchasing a book and then discussing it on our Zoom sessions.
Recently, we decided to read The White Girl by Tony Birch.
I was leading the discussion. I contacted Tony as part of my research and was absolutely delighted when he offered to join our discussion. He was very gracious with his time and all of our members appreciated it.
I have attached a screen shot taken during this Zoom session.
We love hearing what our book groups have been up to! If you’d like to share a story from your group, please email us at bookgroups@cae.edu.au.
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The Mothers – Genevieve Gannon
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What if the baby you gave birth to belonged to someone else?
Grace and Dan Arden are in their forties and have been on the IVF treadmill since the day they got married. Six attempts have yielded no results and with each failure a little piece of their hope dies. Priya Laghari and her husband Nick Archer are being treated at the same fertility clinic, and while they don't face the same time pressure as the Ardens, the younger couple have their own problems.
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Priya is booked for her next IVF cycle the same day that Grace goes in for her final, last-chance embryo transfer. Two weeks later, both women get their results.
A year on, angry and heartbroken, one of the women learns her embryo was implanted in the other's uterus and must make a devastating choice: live a childless life knowing her son is being raised by strangers or seek custody of a baby who has been nurtured and loved by another couple.
Thanks to Allen & Unwin
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Anyone is welcome to enter! To go in the draw, simply email us at competition@cae.edu.au and let us know what you’re looking forward to reading next. Include your name and postal address. Entries close on Wednesday 4 November 2020. The winner will be notified and answers may be used on social media.
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A Year in the Garden: Vegetables & Herbs (Online)
1 Session
Saturday, 10:30am-12:30pm, 7 November
$99/$95 (conc)
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Chinese Calligraphy (Online) - NEW
5 Sessions
Thursday, 6:30pm-8:30pm, 12 November
$285/$275 (conc)
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Introduction to Screenwriting (Online)
6 Sessions
Monday, 6pm-9pm, 16 November
$350/$333 (conc)
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