by Frauke Bolton-Boshammer

The powerful true story of how one woman turned the outback dust into a diamond empire.

Within minutes of landing at Kununurra, Frauke Bolton had made up her mind to get on a plane back to Germany. It was 1981 and the dusty frontier town was no place for a woman. However, Frauke stayed determined to help her husband carve out a new life farming. Tragedy struck just three years later when Friedrich took his own life, and she was left to raise their family alone.

Twenty-six years after she sold her first necklace off the back porch, Kimberley Fine Diamonds in Kununurra., is now home to one of the worlds largest collections of Argyle pink diamonds with a client list of Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.

Frauke is credited for not only pioneering an industry but for putting the tiny outback town and its precious diamonds on the map.

A Diamond in the Dust is a tale of love and loss, hardship and heartache but ultimately the inspiring story of a young girl from Germany overcome by tragedy to pioneer a diamond empire in one of Hef most unforgiving terrain on earth.

Sutherland Library: 2 copies

Big W & Kmart: Don’t stock

Booktopia: $35.75 Paperback

Amazon: $4.99 Kindle, $30.79 Paperback

by Elizabeth Gilbert

In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar college, owing to her lack lustre freshman years performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theatre called the Lily Playhouse.

There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing show girls to a sexy male actor, a great dame actress and a lady killer writer and a no-nonsense manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her world upside down in ways that it will take years to understand . Ultimately , though it leads her to a new understanding of the kind of life she craves for and the kind of freedom it takes to pursue.

It also leads to the love of her life, a love that stands out from all the rest.

Now ninety-five years old and telling her story. Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life and the gusto with which she approached it.

Sutherland Library: 8 copies (+ 3 lge print) & Borrow Box

Big W & Kmart: Don’t stock

Booktopia: $53.25 Hardcover (No paperback)

Amazon: $11.05 Kindle, $17.70 Paperback

by Lucinda Riley

Maia D’Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home a fabulous, secluded castle on the shores of Lake Geneva, having been told that their beloved father who adopted them all as babies has died.

Each of them is handed a tantalising clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Once there she begins to put together the pieces of her story and its beginnings.

Eighty years earlier in Rios Belle Epoque of 1920, s, Izabella Bonifacios father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into the aristocracy. Meanwhile architect Heitor de Silva is devising plans for an enormous statue to be called the Christ of Redeemer and will soon travel to Paris to find the right sculptor to complete his vision.

Izabella, passionate and longing to see the world convinced her father to allow her to accompany his family. There at Paul Landon’s studio in the heady vibrant cafes of Montparnasse she meets a young sculptor Laurent Brouilly and knows at once her life will never be the same.

In this sweeping epic tale of love and loss in a spellbinding showcase series of seven novels.

Sutherland Library: Borrow Box, 1 lge print (7 holds)

Big W $14, Kmart: Don’t stock

Booktopia: $21.75 Paperback

Amazon: $12.99 Kindle, $14.00 Paperback