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Interviews will be held 31st August from 7pm.
Kay Mooney visited a recent exhibition at East Gippsland Art Gallery showed the skills and artistry of embroidery, lace making, felt craft, quilting, working with paper, and probably some crafts I haven’t mentioned. The skill and imagination exhibited was just breathtaking. Unfortunately this Exhibition is closing on Saturday the 23rd July having been on tour, and I had only just heard about it. A fantastic experience.
Recommended reading
Retirement can turned Islanders into avid readers churning through a book every two days or less and haunting the ladies at the library. Other Islanders have always been a reader, as a child hidden under the bed cloths with a torch, now always with a book handy, on the ferry, waiting for something to cook or finish washing; playing hooky for an hour on the verandah. You can always have a quick few minutes with a good book. So, we would like to share, with others, books we have enjoyed and pass on the addiction.
DOLORES GORDON-SMITH has magically combined the talents of Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes to create JACK HALDEAN (a retired army officer)and Inspector BILL RACKHAM in a post world-war-one setting confronted with what appears to be a murder in a most puzzling manner. In the two books I have read; “Trouble Brewing”, and “After The Exhibition”, the two men sift through what appears to be an impossible task to solve these crimes. The characters and situations are fantastic and have the reader constantly changing their minds as to the outcome. Jack, in some way, reminds me of Christopher Fowlers Arthur Bryant. Both these books are guaranteed page turners, with brilliant endings. Definitely FOUR STARS, and a must read. Both these books are in the Paynesville Library. Just read them! JM
Sulari Gentill: The Rowland Sinclair Series
Stories set in the 1930s against the dark rise of Nazism. The Sinclairs are Australian “aristocracy” a wealthy landowning family. Rowland, the hero, is an artist with a band of eccentric friends who rally round to extricate him from various dangers and adventures while together trying to raise the alarm in regard to events in Germany. This is an ongoing theme through the books we have read, the stories interwoven with real background events and persons, bringing the times to real life. There are seven books to date with number eight due to hit the shops in 2017. It’s even printed in Australia - Hurrah! KM
M.C. Beaton: The Agatha Raisin Series
These are much more light hearted who-dunn-its with a blundering, and not always likeable, heroin Agatha. It has been made into a couple of T.V. episodes. Set in the picture perfect Cotswolds of England, it has a cast of very appealing characters and follows the transforming of Agatha from a monster of the Public Relations world of big business in London, to a more likable, and much happier, village dweller who solves the local crimes of country living, sometimes more by luck than skill. A lot of fun. KM
Sulari Gentill: The Rowland Sinclair Series
Stories set in the 1930s against the dark rise of Nazism. The Sinclairs are Australian “aristocracy” a wealthy landowning family. Rowland, the hero, is an artist with a band of eccentric friends who rally round to extricate him from various dangers and adventures while together trying to raise the alarm in regard to events in Germany. This is an ongoing theme through the books we have read, the stories interwoven with real background events and persons, bringing the times to real life. There are seven books to date with number eight due to hit the shops in 2017. It’s even printed in Australia - Hurrah! KM
M.C. Beaton: The Agatha Raisin Series
These are much more light hearted who-dunn-its with a blundering, and not always likeable, heroin Agatha. It has been made into a couple of T.V. episodes. Set in the picture perfect Cotswolds of England, it has a cast of very appealing characters and follows the transforming of Agatha from a monster of the Public Relations world of big business in London, to a more likable, and much happier, village dweller who solves the local crimes of country living, sometimes more by luck than skill. A lot of fun. KM
