4 new Booktopia Book Club books you need on your shelf!

Need some reading inspo? Why not check out the latest titles from the Booktopia Book Club! From two fascinating true crime reads to a stunningly romantic memoir, there’s no shortage of fantastic reads available to you.

And remember, you can buy all of these titles at the special price of $14.95 when you join the Booktopia Book Club! Read on …

Finding Paris

by Hedley Derenzie

Reeling from another romantic failure, Hedley Derenzie booked a trip to Paris, la Cité d’Amour, in the hope of finding true love. Or at the very least a gorgeous Frenchman with whom she could have a wild summer fling and wash away the inconvenient and all-too-familiar heartbreak.

Instead, Hedley found herself on the other side of the world with no luggage, a string of failed relationships behind her and the shocking realisation that they all had one thing in common — her.

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Eugenia

by Suzanne Falkiner

In the spring of 1917 an apprentice from the Cumberland Paper Mills, just outside Sydney, was walking along a bush track beside the Lane Cove River when he discovered the partially burnt body of an unidentified woman. The arrest three years later of a 45-year-old Italian, Eugenia Falleni, for murder, led to an investigation that fascinated Australia.

Known in the newspapers as the ‘Man-Woman Case’, the trial revealed that from the time she had left New Zealand and gone to sea as a cabin boy, Eugenia Falleni had lived at least twenty years of her life in the guise of a man.

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Mrs Mort’s Madness: The True Story of a Sydney Scandal

by Suzanne Falkiner

Four days before Christmas in 1920, Dorothy Mort shot her lover dead in cold blood. The tragic end to her affair with dashing young doctor, cricket star and War hero, Dr Claude Tozer, scandalised Sydney. Dorothy’s respectable husband was devastated. Following a trial that mesmerised the public and sent the media into a frenzy, the troubled North Shore mother of two and budding actress was declared ‘not guilty on the ground of insanity’.

After nine years in Long Bay Gaol, Dorothy was released and returned to live quietly with her husband . . . But was she really mad, or bad, or neither? And what was the secret that her husband kept for the rest of his life?

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Dark Wave

by Lana Guineay

George hasn’t heard from his ex, Paloma, since she returned to her family home on Songbird Island in the Whitsundays. Now she’s asking for his help to uncover the mystery of who is stealing the family’s wealth, but what they discover is much worse than a case of fraud.

With luscious prose and a sumptuous setting, Lana Guineay’s Viva La Novella Prize-winning debut is a brilliant reworking of the classic crime novel.

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