City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Woohoo – what a ride! City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert is Vivian’s life, told in flashback, and what a life it is! Chapter one…
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The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
In The Weekend by Charlotte Wood, Jude, Wendy, Adele and Sylvie have been friends for over forty years, since their shared days in Oxford. Now…
Eugenia by Mark Tedeschi QC
Eugenia by Mark Tedeschi QC is quite simply about a person born as a female, but determined to live as a male – extraordinarily, this…
The Outcasts of Time by Ian Mortimer
Two brothers, dying from the plague, make a deal with the devil for a longer life – the twist? That life must be 99 years…
The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham tells the tale of a talented seamstress, returning home to her small town after years away with salacious and scandelous…
Event Recording: Life lessons from Hugh Mackay, Psychologist and bestselling author
We were joined at the SMSA by Hugh Mackay, experienced social psychologist and bestselling author in conversation with Catherine du Peloux Menagé, Artistic Director…
Event Recording: John Brogden Author Talk
This October we were joined at the SMSA by John Brogden, the Honorary President of LifeLine International, to talk about his newly released book…
Our Souls At Night by Kent Haruf
Our Souls At Night by Kent Haruf is a beautiful story of two widowers and the comfort they find in one another, despite small town…
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
What a strange little book Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata is! How to best describe it? Keiko is 36 years old, and has worked all…
Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
Belgravia by Downton Abbey author, Julian Fellowes, is a classic English novel of love, loss and aristocracy, in the backdrop of a war.
2023 Year In Review: SMSA’s Top 10 Books
Have you managed to read all of SMSA’s most popular books? Discover our Top 10 most borrowed titles for 2023, in our Year in Review…
2023 Year In Review: SMSA’s Top 10 Mysteries
Mystery & Crime lovers abound at SMSA, so we have highlighted the top books from that genre this year. Which have you read? We hope…