2ser Book Club

Don Tillman is not like everyone else. As a successful geneticist he has career satisfaction and is able to schedule and plan most other aspects of his life such that optimal happiness can be achieved in a given circumstance. The first two books in the Rosie series saw Don try to plan his way into a relationship and then plan his way into parenting. Today we’ve got the third of Graeme Simsion’s Rosie series; The Rosie Result.

It's now six years later and Don and Rosie return from New York to Australia. With them is their eleven year old son Hudson. The transition for Hudson is not as smooth as it is for Don and Rosie. Australia's a different world; Hudson’s not fitting in at school and he’s struggling to make friends.

Highway Bodies takes us to regional Victoria on the eve of the Zombie Apocalypse.

With the undead ready to bite at ever turn, three groups of teenagers must fight through the shuffling hoards and defend against roaming bands of humans.

Featuring queer, non-binary and gender fluid characters Evans' apocalyptic adventure explores the very real danger of trying to live, survive and just be yourself.

If Cats Disappeared From the World tells the story of a postman given only days to live following the diagnosis of a brain tumour.

When the devil appears wearing an Aloha short the postman is given a choice; for one more day of life he must make one thing disappear from the world.

What could you live without?

The 2ser Book Club is back with more great reads in 2019!

Join Andrew and Tess and discover what they've been reading over the summer as well as find a few good reads to help you think about Australia's history in the lead up to January 26th.

Sara Barsova has returned to her family home at the foot of Mt Wellington following the death of her Grandmother. Nina Barsova raised Sara as her own following the teenage pregnancy of Sara’s mother Helena.

A chance meeting with Abdhul, an Afghani refugee, has Sara reevaluating her ties to family as she seeks to forgive her mother and finally discover the identity of her father.

Cedar Valley follows Benny Miller as she leaves Sydney to take up an offer of a small house house in Cedar Valley. Benny’s Mum has recently died and her old friend Odette has offered Benny the house where Vivian once lived.

The day Benny gets to town a well dressed man steps off the local bus and walks to the local antique store. Sitting himself down on the footpath, he is later found dead, still seated when the town closes down for the afternoon.

So begins another day in the life of Cedar Valley.

Krissy Kneen's Wintering takes us into the lives of Jessica and Matthew. They live a secluded life in an out-of-the-way cabin in Tasmania’s south. Matthew’s a local though, in a town that knows what you had for breakfast before the coffee even gets cold, while Jessica’s from the mainland and mostly keeps to herself.

Life goes on, as life tends to do, until one evening Matthew fails to return home and Jessica receives a call; the police have found his car and his phone abandoned on an isolated section of road...

In Rosalie Ham’s The Year of the Farmer we find five years of drought have been hard on Bishop’s Corner. They’ve been hard on the whole region, but Mitchell Bishop has suffered especially since Neralie McIntosh left town for the city. Mitch is now married to Mandy, against the town’s wishes, and she’s hellbent on getting the respect she feels she’s owed as Mrs Bishop.

With the water authority ready to cut allocations to irrigators, no one’s got any money to pay anyone else and the town is ready to riot. And just who is the pubs new owner and what will they mean for the simmering tensions across the community?

A Sand Archive begins in Geelong, where our unnamed narrator discovers a slim volume on dune stabilisation by an engineer, FB Herschell. The unassuming book quickly transfixes the narrator with its blend of carefully observed statistics and poetic flourishes. When Herschell himself visits the narrator’s book store, they begin a brief friendship that inspires a search for the true Herschell following his death. Piecing together a life from diaries we are transported between the 1968 Paris student riots, the French Atlantic Coast and the stifling Victorian public service.

We meet Katherine King Button as she embarks from the boat into London, two years after departing at the end of the war. Having served as a nurse on the Western Front, Katherine is Kiki to all those who know her from those days. London is just a pit stop, though on her way to Paris and to the freedom that only the post war liberty that city can offer. Ensconced in a garret in Montparnasse Kiki is determined to live up to notoriety as the blonde Australian society reporter.

Falling in with artistic circles Kiki becomes a model and lover of Pablo Picasso who entrusts Kiki with a mission to locate a stolen portrait; leveraging all her society access to discover the thief. When a mysterious figure from the war reemerges, at the same time reports drift in from Germany's northern territories of fascist brownshirts terrorising the population, Kiki knows her past is catching up with her...

Settle in for a ripping adventure in the city of lights!