Readers are spoilt for choice: bookshops are overflowing with the great, the good (and the rest), and it could not be harder to choose what to read next.
Every fortnight, let Debut Mondays be your guide. Come and have a glass of wine and discover the best new writers around.
This week we feature:
Gretchen Shirm, Having Cried Wolf
Lisa Reece-Lane, Milk Fever
Kristel Thornell, Night Street
Ingrid Laguna, Serenade for a Small Family
Gretchen Shirm is a Sydney lawyer and writer. Her collection of interwoven short stories Having Cried Wolf received the 2009 DJ O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship for Emergent Writers.
As a percussionist, singer and songwriter, Ingrid Laguna’s first novel Serenade for a Small Family touches on some of the subjects closest to her heart.
Lisa Reece-Lane studied music at the Victorian College of the Arts and Milk Fever is her first novel.
Kristel Thornell won the 2009 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for her first novel, Night Street.