Where: Sutherland Library, 30-36 Belmont Street, Sutherland

Cost: Free

Do you enjoy reading and discussing Classic Literature? If so, join us on the first Tuesday of each month for the Sutherland Classics Open Book Group. There is no commitment required; just turn up ready to share your thoughts. Each month a book from classic literature is selected by the group to be read for the following meeting.

Next meeting's book: Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

Excellent Women is one of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those "excellent women," the smart, supportive, repressed women who men take for granted. As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighbors-anthropologist Helena Napier and her handsome, dashing husband, Rocky, and Julian Malory, the vicar next door-the novel presents a series of snapshots of human life as actually, and pluckily, lived in a vanishing world of manners and repressed desires.

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It is your responsibility to source a copy of the selected book.

If you do not wish to purchase a copy the library will have some copies for loan, however these are openly available to all library members (you may be able to reserve a copy).  Alternatively, we may be able to source a copy from another library service via our Interlibrary Loans service.  Standard charges apply for reserves and interlibrary loans.

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Where: Menai Library, Next to Menai Marketplace, Allison Road, Menai

Cost: Free

Do you love reading crime fiction? Join our Crime Open Book Club at Menai Library, investigating a different crime novel on the 2nd Thursday of each month.

Everyone is welcome to crime open book group where we'll be reading everything from classics to contemporary, mysteries, thrillers and more.

Next meeting's book: Gallows Rock / Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

On a jagged, bleak lava field just outside Reykjavik stands the Gallows Rock. Once a place of execution, it is now a tourist attraction. Until this morning, when a man was found hanging from it...The nail embedded in his chest proves it wasn't suicide. But when the police go to his flat, a further puzzle awaits: a four-year-old boy has been left there. He doesn't seem to have any link with the victim, his parents cannot be found, and his drawings show he witnessed something terrible.As detective Huldar hunts the killer, and child psychologist Freyja looks for the boy's parents, the mystery unfolds: a story of violence, entitlement, and revenge.

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The Fine Print

It is your responsibility to source a copy of the selected book.

If you do not wish to purchase a copy the library will have some copies for loan, however these are openly available to all library members (you may be able to reserve a copy).  Alternatively, we may be able to source a copy from another library service via our Interlibrary Loans service. Standard charges apply for reserves and interlibrary loans.

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Where: Cronulla Library, Cronulla Central, Croydon Street, Cronulla

Cost: Free

Everyone is welcome at this open book group. Just turn up ready to share your thoughts. Each month a book is selected by the group to be read for the following meeting.

Next meeting's book: Saving you / Charlotte Nash

Three escaped pensioners. One single mother. A road trip to rescue her son. The new emotionally compelling page-turner by Australia's Charlotte Nash In their tiny pale green cottage under the trees, Mallory Cook and her five-year-old son, Harry, are a little family unit who weather the storms of life together. Money is tight after Harry's father, Duncan, abandoned them to expand his business in New York. So when Duncan fails to return Harry after a visit, Mallory boards a plane to bring her son home any way she can. During the journey, a chance encounter with three retirees on the run from their care home leads Mallory on an unlikely group road trip across the United States. Zadie, Ernie and Jock each have their own reasons for making the journey and along the way the four of them will learn the lengths they will travel to save each other - and themselves.

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The Fine Print

It is your responsibility to source a copy of the selected book.

If you do not wish to purchase a copy the library will have some copies for loan, however these are openly available to all library members (you may be able to reserve a copy).  Alternatively, we may be able to source a copy from another library service via our Interlibrary Loans service. Standard charges apply for reserves and interlibrary loans.

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Cost: Free

Kick off Plastic Free July with an informative webinar!

Learn what’s happening in communities and businesses right now to reduce plastic use. Discover the steps you can take to fight against plastic pollution.

Join Kal Glanznig from Plastic Free Cronulla to turn the tide to a cleaner, more liveable environment.

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