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Monday, 8 March 2021

As restrictions ease on social gatherings and the number of visitors you can have in your home, it may be the perfect time to get the book club back together. We have over 300 book club kits to choose from which includes everything from biographies, to romance, to true crime and more.

In celebration of International Women’s Day and the 2021 theme Choose to Challenge, here are our recommendations for your next book club title.

The choice, Edith Eger

Eminent psychologist Dr. Edie Eger explores her own experiences as a Holocaust survivor to help treat patients suffering from traumatic stress disorder.

Colette’s France: her lives, her loves, Jane Gilmour

This illustrated biography recounts the varied lives of an artistic, rebellious women who lived life on her own terms.

Enid: the scandalous life of a glamorous Australian who dazzled the world, Robert Wainwright

In early twentieth-century society where women were expected to be demure and obedient, Enid Lindeman waltzed through life to the beat of her own drum.  

Long live the tribe of fatherless girls, T Kira Madden

This is a memoir about coming of age as a queer, biracial teenager within the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida.

The lotus eaters, Emily Clements

When a standoff with her best friend sees nineteen-year-old Emily stranded in Vietnam, she is alone for the first time and adrift in a new environment. With seemingly nothing to lose, she makes the biggest decision of her life to stay.

Things I learned from falling, Claire Nelson

While on a hike in Joshua Tree National Park, Claire Nelson fell 30 feet, gravely injuring herself. She had to lay alone in the desert, mistakenly miles off any trail and without mobile phone signal, fighting for her life.

A woman of no importance: the untold story of WW11 most dangerous spy, Sonia Purnell

In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission - "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg.