Book Club pick for September is A Catalogue of Love by Erin Hortle. It will be on Thursday the 25th of September from 5.30-6.30pm.

About the book:

Neika learned to surf in the sometimes crystal-clear, sometimes opaque green barrels of Cloudy Bay, under the guidance of her father and stepfather. Bruny Island, surfing and the natural world are as much a part of her as her blood and breath.

In her twenties now, she has made her way in the world without her mother, who died when Neika was only two. Her path to adulthood was shaped by the love of two adoring fathers, but sitting alongside their love was always a mother-shaped hole. How different would she be if she’d had her mother there to guide her? Would she have dodged the mistakes that seem to define her life?

Neika watches the world around her like the scientist she has become, seeking to understand what it means to be a woman in a culture that does not always treat women kindly. In navigating her catalogue of experiences – desire, loss, love and power – she comes to see how each has made her who she is.    

About the author:

Erin Hortle is a Tasmanian-based author whose fiction and essays explore new ways of imagining the human's relationship with the more than human world, with a distinctly feminist bent. Topics she writes about include surfing and surf culture, pelagic birds, octopuses and ambergris. 

We meet at the back of the store from 5.30-6.30pm. See you then!