SLV picks 10 Victorian books for annual ‘Summer Read’ program

The State Library of Victoria (SLV) and Public Libraries Network Victoria have announced the 10 books that will feature in the next ‘The Summer Read’—a statewide campaign to encourage library patrons to read Victorian books over Summer.

The books selected for the campaign are either set in Victoria, about Victorians or written by Victorian authors. The selected titles are:

• The Battle for Lone Pine: Four Days of Hell at the Heart of Gallipoli (David W Cameron, Viking)
• A World of Other People (Steven Carroll, Fourth Estate)
• Sisters of Spicefield (Fran Cusworth, Vintage)
• Love With a Chance of Drowning: A Memoir (Torre DeRoche, Viking)
• The Memory Trap (Andrea Goldsmith, Fourth Estate)
• Blood Witness (Alex Hammond, Michael Joseph)
• Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport (Anna Krien, Black Inc.)
• Is it Just Me? Confessions of an Over-Sharer (Chrissie Swan, Nero)
• Father Bob: The Larrikin Priest (Sue Williams, Penguin)
• The Swan Book (Alexis Wright, Giramondo).

The Summer Read runs from 18 December to 16 February 2014, with the SLV and a range of metropolitan and regional library services running special events throughout the campaign, as well as a book giveaway.

For more information or to see a list of participating libraries, visit the SLV website here.

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