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BOOK CLUB Manual of Healthy Longevity& Wellbeing Luigi Fontana (HARDIE GRANT) A practical guide, this manual, by the scientific director of the Healthy Longevity Research and Clinical Program at the University of Sydney, provides readers with practical tools to healthy longevity in three key areas: how and what to eat, including over 80 delicious recipes; exercise information, incorporating a weekly exercise program; plus wellbeing advice such as sleep, mindfulness and a happy, purposeful life. !e Collected Regrets of Clover Mikki Brammer (PENGUIN) As a death doula, Clover Brooks often feels more connected to the dead than the living, right down to the list of their confessions and regrets she has carefully recorded. Can these words of wisdom – and some unexpected new friendships – allow her to find a happy ending? A refreshing and life-affirming book that tenderly explores the often taboo subject of death, this is a beautiful debut novel by Aussie author Mikki Brammer. RedDirt Road S. R. White (HACHETTE) In Unamurra, an isolated, one-pub town deep in the Australian Outback, two men are brutally murdered, their bodies grotesquely arranged like angels. There are no witnesses, motives or connections with the victims. Detective Dana Russo has been flown in from hundreds of kilometres away and given a couple of days to crack the baffling case, while being met with silence and suspicion from hardened locals who live by their own rules. ENTERTAINMENT I Will Find You Harlan Coben (PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE) Best-selling master of the mystery thriller, Harlan Coben is at his heart-stopping best in this stand-alone novel. David Burroughs is in prison, serving a life sentence for the murder of his three-year-old son – that he didn’t commit. When his sister-in-law visits him with evidence his son might be alive, David has to find out what really happened that night so he can find his son and clear his name. He just needs to break out of jail first. Fire With Fire Candice Fox (BANTAM AUSTRALIA) The queen of Australian crime thrillers, Candice Fox, is back with a gripping story and a line-up of combustible characters. Start with desperate parents who hijack a police crime lab intent on destroying vital DNA samples. Add as tinder a rookie cop who loses her job on her first day at work. And light the fire with a hardened undercover cop who has the Death Machines motorcycle gang out to obliterate him and the surfer who saves him. !e Tea Ladies Amanda Hampson (PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE) The tea lady at Empire Fashionwear in swinging sixties Sydney, Hazel Bates knows everyone’s business, from the manager’s office to the factory floor. When the building opposite is set on fire and a dead body shows up, Hazel and her fellow tea ladies set out to solve the crime – but as the mystery deepens, Hazel wonders if she’s in over her head. A twisty, witty crime tale that celebrates older women, a bygone era and a good cup of tea. OVERSIXTY.COM.AU | ISSUE 4 | APRIL 2023 29 SELECT EDITIONS CLUB TO JOIN THE SELECT EDITIONS CLUB PHONE: 1300 300 030 OR GO TO: readersdigest.com.au/selecteditions ORDER NOW! $125,000 IN CASH TO BE WON! Mysteries, Dramas, Thrillers & Romances. Today’s best-selling authors. We select the best, so you receive the most! Four condensed books in each volume. * A new volume will be shipped to you every 6-8 weeks. Subsequent volumes $39.99 + $7.99 P&H with a Free Gift. You can cancel Club Membership at any time. INTRODUCTORY* $10 WELCOME OFFER AND A FREE GIFT FLORAL NOTEBOOK S ulari Gentill first fell in love with storytelling as a child. ‘My father would tell stories, like the stories that werewritten into the constellations. We’d go out at night, and he’d look up at the night sky, and hewould point out Orion, and tell us the story of Orion the Giant.’ She thinks this is what led her to study astro-physics at university, alongwith law. ‘I real- ised later on,’ she says, ‘that I’d fallen in love with stories that my father had told about the night sky, as opposed to the stars themselves.’ After working as a cor- porate lawyer, she found her legal background handywhen she began writing her first mystery. ‘Legal training really brings home that there are always at least two Sulari Gentill Author of The Woman in the Library sides to any tale. A lot of mywriting has involved looking at alternative interpretations and perspectives,’ she explains. ‘I could probably still draft you a contract,’ she quips. ‘But youmight find it has a plot... and perhaps a twist or two.’ Sulari is also the author of the multi-awardwinning Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, a series of (cur- rently) ten historical crime novels set in 1930s Australia; and The Hero Trilogy – a fantasy adventure series based on themyths and legends of the ancient world published under S. D. Gentill. Sulari lives in Batlow, in Australia’s SnowyMountains, where shewrites and grows French Black Truffles. To join the Select Editions Club, phone 1300 300 030 or go to readersdigest.com.au/selecteditions