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Title: The Senior - Win various March prizes Post by: culturebird on Friday 28 February 2025, 06:53:13 pm Is self-care high on your agenda for 2025? Turning off the telly and diving into a good book could be the first step to better brain health, according to new research.
A study from the University of South Australia found the way we choose to spend our rest and recreation time could significantly impact our cognitive health. Mentally stimulating activities such as reading (among other things), was found to be beneficial to memory and thinking abilities. Crime Novel: Mandy Beaumont has written a masterful and explosive crime novel that explores the mind of a killer and the power of a granddaughter's love, The Thrill of It (Hachette Australia, rrp $32.99). Taut, chilling and unforgettable, The Thrill of It explores the mind of a killer and the power of a granddaughter's love. The fiction novel is inspired and informed by the real-life brutal slayings of six older women in Sydney's Northshore between 1989 and 1990 by English born John Wayne Glover, also known as The Granny Killer. A thrill-killer who became excited by his own acts of violence, Glover was also an opportunist who robbed these women, using their cash to aid his pokies addiction. Murder Mystery An award-winning debut novel about secrets, prejudice and the hidden lives of women in 1970s Canberra, where a murder sends shockwaves through a community on a suburban cul-de-sac. The Grapevine (Hachette Australia, rrp $32.99) by Kate Kemp is set in the height of summer in Australia, 1979, and on a quiet suburban cul-de-sac in Canberra a housewife is scrubbing the yellow and white chequered tiles of the bathroom floor. But all is not as it seems. As the sun rises on Warrah Place, news of Antonio Marietti's death spreads like wildfire. Gossip is exchanged in whispers and suspicion mounts. Kate Kemp is an Australian writer living in the UK. She trained as an occupational therapist and then as a systemic psychotherapist, and has worked with families and individuals in mental health services in both Australia and the UK. In 2021, she won the Stylist Prize for Feminist Fiction and the Yeovil Literary Prize. The Grapevine is her first novel. Puzzles A Plenty The Murdle puzzle phenomenon comes to Australia with fifty new mystery logic puzzles that challenge you to find whodunit, where and why. It's like entering an escape room puzzle parlour without leaving the house. Postgrad Logico returns in Murdle Australia: The School of Mystery by G T Karber, taking us back to his postgraduate studies at the University of Deduction. Join Logico as he investigates a booby-trapped Akubra, cut-throat student elections and trials for the chess footy team. Along the way, he'll glimpse mysterious black opal pins, robed figures in hidden tunnels and a fatal jumbo parma, all overshadowed by the unsolved death of Bunbury Basalt OAM, founder of the university. Logico must determine whodunit, how, why and where before the final siren. Packed with illustrations, codes and maps, this is the ultimate detective casebook to get those little grey cells firing. https://australiancommunitymedia.wufoo.com/forms/zckevp216ze126 One entry per person. Entries close on March 31. |