Issue 83

November 2018

Commemorating the Centenary of the Armistice

Sunday 11th November 2018

The Town of Bassendean, in conjunction with the Eastern Regional RSL

Sub-Branch, will commemorate the centenary of the Armistice, which

ended the First World War, with a Remembrance Day service at 10.30am

on SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER at the Bassendean War Memorial, Cnr

Guildford Road & Wilson Street, Bassendean.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

Learn how to make Beeswax Wraps-An alternative to cling

wrap. A Library Lunchtime Interlude.

Beeswax and cotton or hemp wraps are a versatile food wrap system

that keeps food fresh longer without using plastic wrap. This is a

stylish way to carry your food and ensure its freshness without

costing the earth.

Participants will have a hands-on experience going

through the entire process of making the wraps using

different recipes.

Tuesday 20th of November, 12- 1pm.

Bassendean Memorial Library

https://www.trybooking.com/YXPY

Due to the use of hot electric

pans, this is an Adults Only

Event.

New books: Fiction

Nine Perfect Strangers

by Liane Moriarty.

Could ten days at a health resort

really change you forever? In Liane

Moriarty’s latest page-turner, nine

perfect strangers are about to find

out...

Nine people gather at a remote health

resort. Some are here to lose weight,

some are here to get a reboot on life,

some are here for reasons they can’t

even admit to themselves. Amidst all

of the luxury and pampering, the

mindfulness and meditation, they

know these ten days might involve

some real work. But none of them

could imagine just how challenging

the next ten days are going to be.

Non-fiction

ANZAC sniper: The

extraordinary story of

Stan Savige, one of

Australia's greatest

soldiers

by Roland Perry

The extraordinary story of Stan

Savige - from Gallipoli marksman to

WWII General and the founder of

Legacy.

In this gripping biography, Roland

Perry paints a fascinating and com-

plex portrait of Lieutenant General

Sir Stanley George Savige, KBE,

CB, DSO, MC, ED, a man of charac-

ter and compassion, a quiet outsider

who founded the war veterans' sup-

port charity Legacy, who still has

few peers in courage, skill and

achievement and whose record is

second to none in Australian military

history, in the scope of his combat

over two world wars.

Readers’ Choice After The Lights Go Out by

Lili Wilkinson. (2018) (YA)

17 year old Pru lives with

her 15 year old twin sisters

and dad on the outskirts of an isolated mining

community in Australia. The

family are doonsday preppers and have a hidden bunker filled with supplies. One day when Pru’s

dad is at work, the power goes out. It’s out

everywhere and no one knows why. Everywhere

quickly unravels as in the small town supplies are running out and people are desperate. The

sisters decide to keep their bunker a secret as

their dad taught them; survival is everything and

family comes first.

Amazing! This book is a perfect example of why

I still read young adult fiction. I read it within 24

hours because I genuinely couldn’t stop reading. It’s a fascinating topic for a book – I’m sure most

of us would find a doomsday prepper intriguing.

We get to read from Pru’s point of view – a girl who has grown up being trained by her paranoid

father, but then lo and behold, maybe dad was

right all along….but Pru doesn’t sit comfortable

with the idea of leaving everyone left in their small town to die. There’s some pretty big

themes included in this book (single parent

family, paranoia, coming of age, death, disease, all different types of relationships, diversity in a

very small country town, and the list goes on).

A thought-provoking, extremely well-written

novel that would have to be one of my top picks for this year so far. I hope the author considers

writing a sequel because I’d love to read more

of Pru’s journey! BG

Notable authors’ birthdays in November

November 8

Bram Stoker (1847)

Margaret Mitchell (1900)

Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)

November 10

W.E.B. Griffin (1929)

Neil Gaiman (1960)

November 11

Kurt Vonnegut (1922)

Carlos Fuentes (1928)

November 12

Naomi Wolf (1962)

November 13

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850)

November 18

Margaret Atwood (1939)

Mystery/Crime

Lethal white / Robert Galbraith

The ones you trust / Caroline Overington

The last brother / Andrew Gross

Perfect silence / Helen Fields

Give me your hand / Megan Abbott

Slowly we die / Emelie Schepp

Milkman / Anna Burns

Australian fiction

Shell / Kristina Olsson

Bridge of Clay / Markus Zusak

The town / Shaun Prescott

Non fiction

Simply Ing / Helen Ing Nellie

Now where was I? : the autobiography /

Glenn Shorrock

Boys will be boys / Clementine Ford

Small fry / Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Literary fiction

The biographer's lover / Ruby J. Murray

Eleanor's secret / Caroline Beecham

Love is blind : the rapture of Brodie

Moncur / William Boyd

Romance

The summer of secrets / Barbara Hannay

The right place / Carla Caruso

Normal people / Sally Rooney

The ship of secrets / Geronimo Stilton

November 20

Don Delillo (1936)

November 21

Voltaire (1694)

Beryl Bainbridge (1932)

November 22

George Eliot (1819)

November 24

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849)

November 28

William Blake (1757)

Rita Mae Brown (1944)

November 29

Louisa May Alcott (1832)

C. S. Lewis (1898)

Madeleine L’Engle (1918)

November 30

Jonathan Swift (1667)

Mark Twain (1835)

Margaret Mitchell

Kurt Vonnegut

Margaret Atwood

Voltaire

Rita Mae Brown

Mark Twain

DVD Review

The Local Studies Librarian is always

happy to receive donations of photos,

fliers and memorabilia about

Bassendean, Ashfield and Eden Hill

for the Local Studies Collection.

TV Series

Glee: seasons 3 - 6

24: season 5

Supergirl: seasons 2 & 3

Homeland: season 6

Rick & Morty: season 3

Wentworth: season 6

Picnic at hanging rock:

season 1

The Strike series

The split: series 1

Brooklyn nine-nine:

season 5

Billions: season 2

Cedar Cove: season 2 & 3

Motive: seasons: 1 - 4

The Rockford files:

season 3

The following:

seasons 1 - 3

The 100: seasons 3 & 4

The Durrells: series 3

This is us: seasons 1 & 2

The gifted: season 1

Unforgotten: series 3

Movies

World war Z

Tag

Heavenly creatures

Tully

Unsane

Hereditary

Star Wars: the force

awakens

Jurassic World: fallen

kingdom

Adrift

The post

Life of the party

Solo: a Star Wars story

Gods of Egypt

Junior

Your name

Spirited away

All stars: volume 3

Avatar, the legend of

Aang : books 2 & 3

New DVDs

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58040921

Sunday Times 30 January 1921: 5

West Guildford Soldiers’ Memorial

Until recently it was not known who was responsible for the

monumental work of the West Guildford Soldiers’ Memorial,

now known as the Bassendean War Memorial. The Memorial

was constructed with Mahogany Creek granite. Harry Wales and

Lawrence Gillies served in the 13th Company of Engineers and

the Gillies family were stonemasons so on return from the war,

the two set up business together. As well as the West Guildford

War Memorial, Wales and Gillies were responsible for war

memorials in Bayswater (1922) Claremont (1922)

and Mt Lawley (1924). Lawrence Gillies died in 1961

in New South Wales. Harry Wales died

in 1954 in Western Australia.

Sources

Harry Wales

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=310442

Lawrence Gillies

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=111554

A centenary of

Armistice 1918 - 2018

When three schoolgirls and a teacher

from Appleyard College disappear on

Valentine's Day in 1900, the event has a

far-reaching impact on the rest of the

school, as well as the nearby township.

People quickly come up with theories

about the disappearances as paranoia sets

in and long-held secrets surface. As

authorities get further into their

investigation, the mystery surrounding the

case seemingly deepens.

A great adaptation of the original movie

that gives more insight into the girls and

the Head Mistress but retains the same

eerie quality of that made the movie so

iconic. SP

Picnic at Hanging

Rock.

Aired: 6th May 2018

Directors: Michael

Rymer, Larysa

Kondracki, Amanda

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What’s On In November

RB Digital Automatic Checkouts

RBdigital have enabled patrons to automatically

check out new issues of magazines as soon as they

are available, allowing them to always have the

latest issues of their favourite magazines waiting for

them in their RBdigital account.

When checking out a magazine, patrons are able to

select if they want to be notified via email of the

availability of future issues and have those

automatically checked out and available for reading

in the RBdigital app and web patron interfaces.

You can choose from 385 titles.

Culture WA

The new Culture WA website is a portal to search for

digital objects across the:

- Art Gallery of Western Australia

- State Library of Western Australia

- State Records Office

- Western Australia Museum

http://culture.wam.fyi/

You can search by keyword and the results might in-

clude photographs, reports, museum objects, maps.

The search can be restricted to records with images

only.

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just get a new phone or Tablet?

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