Lisa Ellery on Libby Reads: A free online book club
Are you ready to engage with more authors in 2026? Join the Libby Online Book Club for WA!
This monthly digital book club is available to Western Australian library members and is hosted by local author David Allan-Petale. The book club takes place over Zoom on the third Wednesday of every month
On 18 February, join David and Lisa Ellery for a chat about Lisa’s fiery new crime novel, Hot Ground.
Register here: https://slwa.wa.gov.au/whats-on/libby-online-book-club-wa
About Hot Ground
In the middle of the night in a remote part of Western Australia’s goldfields, the thud of a mallet on a marker peg sets off a chain reaction that unearths long-buried secrets.
Detective Jessy Parkin – sent to policing purgatory in the aftermath of a tainted investigation – is tasked with finding Max Cochrane, a veteran prospector who has vanished into thin air.
What begins with a concerned daughter’s plea for help soon burgeons into a mystery as shapeshifting as a desert mirage. Fortunes are being built on the back of Kalgoorlie’s coveted gold, but the truth might be the rarest find of all.
