Suggested Readings 2021
Here's our recommended reading lists
Memoir
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Below we have a fabulous selection of pre-recorded author readings. If you’re keen for some personal insights from an author, then you’re going to love scrolling through this section.
There’s a link to view them sharing a special part of their book with us on the WestWords YouTube channel as well as a link to purchase the book online.
A great taster if you’re not sure what book you’d like to dive into next!
The Grass Library by David Brooks (YouTube)
The GRASS LIBRARY is a philosophical and poetic journey that recounts the author’s relationship with his four sheep and other animals in his home in the Blue Mountains. It is both a memoir and an elegy for animal rights.
On Drugs by Chris Fleming (YouTube)
An open-hearted exploration of philosopher Chris Fleming’s experience of addiction. In confronting the pathos and comedy of drug use, ON DRUGS also opens out into meditations on the self and its deceptions, religion, masculinity, mental illness, and the tortuous path to recovery.
The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy (YouTube)
A vivid memoir of deafness, disability and identity. Blending memoir with observations on the healthcare industry, THE SHAPE OF SOUND is a story about how deaf experiences and disability are shaped by economics, social policy, medicine and societal expectations.
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Short stories & poems
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Below we have a fabulous selection of pre-recorded author readings. If you’re keen for some personal insights from an author, then you’re going to love scrolling through this section.
There’s a link to view them sharing a special part of their book with us on the WestWords YouTube channel as well as a link to purchase the book online.
A great taster if you’re not sure what book you’d like to dive into next!
Short story - fellow
Spellbinding by Claire Cao (YouTube)
Included in the collection COLLISIONS - FICTIONS OF THE FUTURE
Rephlexa Book 1 by Erin A. Sayers (YouTube)
Poem - fellow
Moulting of the Mayfly by Aishah Ali (YouTube)
Non fiction
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Below we have a fabulous selection of pre-recorded author readings. If you’re keen for some personal insights from an author, then you’re going to love scrolling through this section.
There’s a link to view them sharing a special part of their book with us on the WestWords YouTube channel as well as a link to purchase the book online.
A great taster if you’re not sure what book you’d like to dive into next!
Back on Track by James Knight (YouTube)
Written by bestselling author James Knight, BACK ON TRACK is a thought-provoking and heart-warming story of how one man (and his working dogs) is giving rural kids, on their last chance, a second chance.
The Details by Tegan Bennett Daylight (YouTube)
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Fiction
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Below we have a fabulous selection of pre-recorded author readings. If you’re keen for some personal insights from an author, then you’re going to love scrolling through this section.
There’s a link to view them sharing a special part of their book with us on the WestWords YouTube channel as well as a link to purchase the book online.
A great taster if you’re not sure what book you’d like to dive into next!
No More Boats by Felicity Castagna (YouTube)
Set in Sydney’s Western suburbs, NO MORE BOATS tells of a family whose unraveling lives collide with a refugee crisis known as the Tampa Affair, when over 400 hundred refugees were left stranded fifteen miles off the Australian coast.
Pink by Siobhan Colman (YouTube)
Set in 1969,...