Central Coast Home & Lifestyle Summer 2018

TOPREADS

WELCOME TO OUR BOOK CLUB carefully selected by the clever folks at QBD BOOKS. No matter what your taste, the perfect book for you is just waiting to be discovered .

NINE PERFECT STRANGERS

OUr favourite dramatic reads

The retreat at boutique health- and-wellness resort Tranquillum House promises healing and transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage and absorb the blissful meditative ambiencewhile enjoying their hot stone massages. They are all on a path to a better way of living.

SUITCASE OF DREAMS

THE CLOCKMAKER’S DAUGHTER

After enduring Nazi Germany and the chaos of postwar occupation, Lotte Drescher and her family arrive in Australia in 1956 full of hope for a new life, where Lotte and her husband Erich dream of giving their children the future they have always wanted.

The Clockmaker’s Daughter is a story of murder, mystery and thievery; of art, love and loss. And flowing through its pages like a river is the voice of a woman who stands outside time, whose name has been forgotten by history.

Watching over them is the resort’s director, awoman on a mission to reinvigorate these tired bodies and minds. But towhat lengths will she go to achieve her goal? These nine perfect strangers have no ideawhat’s about to hit them... Get this title at your local QBD for $22.99. Up to $2.30 Loyalty Reward Rebate*.

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THE LOST MAN

Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outback Queensland. They are at the stockman’s grave, a landmark so old, no one can rememberwho is buried there.

NEW TITLES FROM AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS

BRIDGE OF CLAY

THE QUEEN’S COLONIAL

A boy is caught in the current of destroying

When two men cross paths in the

colony of NewSouth Wales, they are struck by their brotherly resemblance and quickly hatch a plan for Ian to take Samuel’s place in the British army. Sometimes the fate forwhich you are destined is not your own...

everything he has, to become all he needs to be. He’s a boy in search of greatness as a cure for memory and tragedy. He builds a bridge to save his family, but also to save himself.

But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last hope for their

middle brother, Cameron. The Bright family’s quiet

existence is thrown into grief and anguish. Something had been troubling Cam. Did he lose hope andwalk to his death? Because if he didn’t, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects...

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