HISTORY UNBOUND BOOK CLUB GIVEAWAY
Enter our History Unbound Book Club Giveaway
Do you have a burning (or curly) question to ask Nicole Alexander or Kate Forsyth at our History Unbound Book Club?
Tell us your question to enter the draw to win one of five personally dedicated book bundles. Use your imagination!
The Book Club is being held on Sunday 2 November at the Parramatta Town Hall where you’ll have the chance to discuss the novels: The Limestone Road and Psykhe.
The Book Club is included in your weekend or Sunday festival ticket at no extra cost. However, we recommend you reserve a spot to avoid disappointment on the day.
Contest closes at 5pm AEDST on 27 October 2025.
Here’s more information about their books to assist you to decide on your burning questions!
The Limestone Road
From the deserts of Egypt to the rolling hills of South Australia, The Limestone Road is a captivating novel about one soldier's courageous journey 'home'.
In the summer of 1944 returning soldiers Canning Christie and his father Michael arrive in South Australia from the desert sands of North Africa.Canning carries the trauma of war and a fractured memory of a terrible event, while charismatic Michael resumes his womanising ways, intent on concealing his own secret wound.
Inexplicably drawn to a vineyard on their land, Canning dreams of producing his own wine. And a chance meeting with Grace Huntley, daughter of the local landowner, offers him hope for that future. But dormant memories keep rising up: his childhood with his mother, the years traversing the interior with his father and his time at the front.
Soon, viniculture becomes an obsession - one he suspects lies in a hazy recollection of a night in battle. To move forward Canning must reconcile the past, even if that means working with Italian POWs and accepting help from an immigrant German . . .And ultimately taking a stand against his own father, whose increasingly reckless behaviour is threatening to destroy their new life.
Psykhe
It is not wise to anger the gods ... or to fall in love with one.
Fair as Venus, the goddess of love, and with the hard-won ability to save the lives of those of mortal blood, Psykhe is both shunned and revered. When she unwittingly provokes Venus, she and her sisters lose everything. Psykhe must find a way to make amends and support her family. Befriended by an old woman, Nokturna, Psykhe finds herself irresistibly drawn to her young friend, Ambrose. But neither is what they seem. For Psykhe has fallen in love with a man whose face she is forbidden to see. After disobeying this injunction, she must risk everything to try to save him, even if it means travelling down to the shadowy Underworld to face Proserpina, queen of the dead.