Books! The second life - Page to screen

Thinking beyond the book takes us into the land of cameras, lights and action!
Check out these books and screen combos - which do you prefer?


Cadfael - Ellis Peters
Captain Corelli's mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Children of men - P. D. James
Dune - Frank Herbert

Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
James Bond - Ian Fleming
Morse - Colin Dexter
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
Rumpole of the Bailey
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Millennium trilogy - Stieg Larsson

Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Miss Fisher's murder mysteries - Kerry Greenwood

Know it all!

Are there some things you just don't understand?  Are you looking for more information on your hobbies or interest? Do you need more than wikipedia and google? Become a Boroondara Know-it-all with your library's databases.

Get your groove on with Berg Fashion Library 


or find a new book to discuss at your bookclub with Good Reading, 

or learn a new language with Byki

or read a newspaper from the other side of the world with Press Display.

or just know everything about everything with Proquest Research Library

Visit your library, check out all the eresources and use your library card number to log in.  You'll be a Boroondara Know-it-all in no time!

Chook Lit

A uniquely Australian take on fiction set in the outback.

Nicole Alexander

 Rosie Dub

Cathryn Hein

Wendy James

Karly Lane

Fiona McCallum

Fleur MacDonald

Mandy Magro

Margareta Osborne

Fiona Palmer

Bronwyn Parry

Rachael Treasure

Karen Wiggers

 

Balwyn Booktalk

Fiona, Fiona and  Lisa spoke at the Balwyn Booktalk -  here are the books they recommended...

Lisa

WEBSTER, Jane.

French ties: love, life & recipes

944.084092 WEB

TYLER, Anne.

The beginner's goodbye

FIC TYLER

MITTON, Lavinia. The Victorian hospital

362.11941 MIT

RUTHERFORD, Sarah.

The Victorian asylum

 686.224 BAN

HIGGINS, Fiona.

The mothers' group

FIC HIGGI

Fiona

McDONALD, Fleur.

Red dust

FIC MACDO

FELLOWES, Jessica.

The world of Downton Abbey

791.4575 FEL

ALBERT, Susan Wittig

The tale of Hill Top Farm

FIC ALBER

Fiona

SYMON, Vanda.

The faceless

FIC SYMON

MINA, Denise.

Sanctum

FIC MINA

McKINLAY, Jenn.

Books can be deceiving

PB MACK

ERSKINE, Y.A.

The betrayal

FIC ERSKI

COHEN, Nick.

You can't read this book: censorship in an age of freedom

332.403 COH

Ashburton Booktalk

If you couldn't make it to the Ashburton Library Booktalk here are the titles that Glenn, Lee and Ros have read and want to recommend to you!


Glenn

A strange eventful history : the dramatic lives of Ellen Terry, Henry irving and their remarkable families - Michael Holrolyd

Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh

The river king - Alice Hoffman

American journeys - Don Watson


Lee
A golden age - Tahmima Anam.


The pleasure seekers - Tishani Doshi


The island - Alistair Macleod


Alzheimer's : a love story - Vivienne Ulman


Ros
Sweet old world - Deborah Robertson

Mr Chartwell - Rebecca Hunt


Death and the Spanish lady : an Eleanor Jones mystery - Carolyn Morwood


Not drowning, reading - Andrew Relph