Ben’s Book Club – March 2022 – The Cane (online event)

Members of Myli Community Libraries can now read the selected title ‘The Cane’ in Libby, before joining Ben Hobson online to meet the author Maryrose Cuskelly and discuss the book.

This is an online event. Please attend using your internet connected computer or mobile. The event Zoom link will be delivered to your email inbox 48 hours before the event. Register to attend here.

About the book – Four weeks after the disappearance of 16-year-old Janet McClymont, the community of Quala, in north Queensland cane country, is riven with dread and distrust. Locals and blow-ins alike have fallen under suspicion and the children, watched over by their anxious parents, dream of a malevolent presence in the fields of sugar cane that blanket the landscape.

As cane fires begin to light the night sky and the sugar crush gets underway, the cane farmers and the people of Quala wonder if Janet will ever be found.

• Listen to the e-audiobook
• Read the e-book

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As more and more Australians read and listen to books on their smartphone or tablet, Myli is pleased to announce that library cardholders can now borrow the book chosen for Ben’s Book Club each month with no waiting or holds on the Libby reading app.

To get started enjoying ebooks, audiobooks, and digital magazines, download Libby or visit our website.

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Meet the speakers

About Ben – Ben Hobson 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 Seizureonline. 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.

About Maryrose – Maryrose Cuskelly is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, in 2016 she was awarded the New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing for her essay Well before dark on the 1972 disappearance of Mackay girl, Marilyn Wallman . In The Cane Maryrose returns to some of the themes running through that essay.

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