Ben's Book Club: July
Ben’s Book Club
Tuesday 22 July | 7:30 pm onwards | Online via zoom
Join Ben Hobson in conversation with author Jane Caro as they discuss her novel "Lyrebird".
Hosted by best-selling author Ben Hobson, each monthly event features a virtual interview with an author about their selected book.
Library card holders can borrow the book chosen for Ben's Book Club, with no waiting or holds on the Libby reading app. Users with a library card can download the selected title on any device 24/7 on the Libby app.
Read the title and then join Ben online each month to meet the authors and discuss their books. For each event, a Zoom link will be posted here for guests to join the discussion instantly.
Ben also has a Facebook group where readers can post comments and interact with Ben before each Ben's Book Club event.
About the book
Lyrebirds are brilliant mimics, so if they mimic a woman screaming in terror and begging for her life, they have witnessed a crime. But how does a young, hungover PhD student and a wet-behind-the-ears new detective convince anyone that a native bird can be a reliable witness to a murder—especially when there is no body and no missing person?
And what happens when they turn out to be right?
All the ingredients crime readers crave: a retired detective pulled back into a cold case long overlooked by a system that failed its most vulnerable, a missing teenage girl whose disappearance exposes deep-rooted inequalities, and a watcher whose sinister presence raises questions not only about guilt, but about the ways society has turned a blind eye.
About Jane Caro
Jane Caro is an author, columnist, broadcaster, advertising writer, documentary maker and social commentator. She has published thirteen books, including the bestselling novel The Mother, and appears frequently on Q&A, The Drum, Sunrise and Weekend Sunrise. In 2018, she won the Walkley Women in Leadership Award and in 2023, was awarded the B&T Women in Media Lifetime Achievement Award. She returns to crime fiction for her second adult novel, Lyrebird.
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About Ben Hobson
Ben lives in Brisbane with his wife and their two small boys. He currently teaches English and Music at a Brisbane High School.
In 2014 his novella, If the Saddle Breaks My Spine, was shortlisted for the Viva La Novella prize, run by Seizure online. To Become a Whale, his first novel, published in 2017, was longlisted for the ABIA Debut Fiction award, and the Courier Mail’s People Choice Award. His second novel, Snake Island, was released in 2019.
You can watch all of the previous Ben's Book Club episodes via the link below.
