Library

New Books

We all know it is important to take time in our busy lives to relax … maybe lose ourselves in a good novel.   Here are some lovely new books, purchased for our senior students and teachers.  Hope you can drop into the library and borrow some before the break.

The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith  The blurb starts: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo introduced us to Scandi noir.  Now, welcome to Alexander McCall Smith’s world of Scandi blanc … this story is a mystery from start to finish with snippets of quirky humour.  The first in a series and something to take your mind away from studies!

The Cave by Liam Cochrane (ABC Southeast Asia correspondent).  Liam gives us the inside story of the daring Thai cave rescue.  In 2018, 12 young boys and their coach walked into a Thai cave with rope, torches but no food.  A sudden monsoonal downpour flooded their route out, trapping them.   Using local knowledge and working with a team of Thai researchers, Liam puts us at the center of the story where he reveals fresh details about the boys’ time inside the cave.  This is an inspirational story of an amazing group of boys and what can be achieved when the world unites.

The things we cannot say by Kelly Rimmer.  This book is set over two different time periods; World War II and 2019.  Alice’s life changed when her son, Eddie, was born with autism spectrum disorder.  When her grandmother is hospitalized, a hidden box of mementoes reveals a tattered photo of a young man, a tiny leather shoe and a letter.  Her grandmother begs Alice to return to Poland to see what became of those she held dearest.  In Poland, separated from her family, Alice begins to uncover the painful family history her grandmother is so desperate to tell.

After she’s gone by Camilla Grebe.  Psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schon and investigator Peter Lindgren, are asked to go to the small industrial town of Ormberg to investigate a cold case murder of a five year old girl who’s remains were found in a cairn near the town. 

No one claimed the little girl.  Hanne’s gradual escalation of dementia means she keeps a diary noting down everything she is likely to forget.  Then Hanne is found wandering the woods of Ormberg hurt and confused – and Peter is missing.  Does Hanne’s diary hold the key to the mystery?