IndyReads SummerReads
Posted on: November 29th, 2025
Discover something new with SummerReads!
Dive into three great Australian books on IndyReads with unlimited access with your Wingecarribee Public Libraries card:
- Hailstones Fell Without Rain by Natalia Figuera Barroso
- Hollow Air by Verity Borthwick
- Hot Ground by Lisa Ellery
They’re perfect for reading at the beach, on holiday, by the pool, or wherever your summer takes you.
This runs from Monday 1 December 2025 - 31 January 2026.
How to participate:
- Download the IndyReads app
- Select "Wingecarribee Public Libraries"
- Enter your Wingecarribee library card number and 4-digit PIN
- Borrow and instantly start reading!
ABOUT THE BOOKS
Hailstones Fell Without Rain by Natalie Figueroa Barrosa
A dazzling, multilayered and often laugh-out-loud story about three generations of working-class women from one family – Graciela, Chula and Rita – who, for various reasons, are separated from one another at the start. Graciela is a Uruguayan migrant struggling to raise her three daughters in Western Sydney, whose life feels like just one bill after another, and she's reaching breaking point. Chula is Graciela's elderly aunt, a Uruguayan who lived through the civic military coup of 1973 and is still waiting for justice. And Rita is Graciela's eldest daughter, who is trying to escape her family's pressures and prejudices while being trapped by racism at work and indelibly tied to the ghosts of her mother's past.
Hollow Air by Verity Borthwick
Isolation can be hard on a person. It can be hard on the mind, especially when the bush closes in on you in the darkness of night. In the tin fields of Far North Queensland, Sarah, a fly-in-fly-out geologist, is working alone at a remote mine site. She spends her time in a sort of limbo, never quite fitting into her life at site or back home in Sydney with her fiancé. Strange things keep happening at the mine site, and Sarah can try to explain them away as the ramblings of a lonely mind, but there are dead bodies from a mining accident a century ago at the old Dulcie Ada mine, still buried beneath more than a hundred metres of rock.
Hot Ground by Lisa Ellery
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 secrets long buried. 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.