Your summer reading list from The Triangle team

Marita

Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen, 2016. I borrowed this after watching the movie Springsteen: Deliver me from Nowhere. The book provides deep insight into the life and career of The Boss and is quite raw.

Yoga in Practice, Katy Appleton, 2004. I bought this book and a pile of Katy’s videos when I had a back injury over 15 years ago. I decided to revisit it earlier this year when I was training for Connor’s Run. I have found it a great complement to guided practice classes.

Winter Knits Made Easy 40 Fabulous Patterns, Anne Hildyard (ed.), 2014. A great resource that has lots of patterns but, more importantly for me, because my Mum is no longer alive, a section on techniques and fixing your knitting mistakes (which I have a tendency to do when I’m not concentrating)!

Flick

Juice, Tim Winton, 2024. This is a gripping audiobook. I was wary of the thick paper book but found the audio version compelling and returned it to the library well ahead of the due date.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, 2022, is a friendship love story between Sadie and Sam, two childhood friends who become famous making computer games.

The Rose Field, Philip Pullman, 2025, is the third volume in the The Book of Dust series and is a magnificent quest to find Lyra’s imagination in a world where dogma and fear smash the imagination to pieces.

Tikka

Twelve Post-War Tales, Graham Swift, 2025. These stories are a reflective study of human experience, through the small and personal, blending colloquial, ordinary lives against the lingering impact of conflict through history.

Orbital, Samantha Harvey, 2023 Booker Prize winner. This novella, set in the International Space Station, explores the astronauts’ understanding of the hopeful relationship of humanity with our planet Earth.

The Vanishing Point, Paul Theroux, 2025, a collection of short stories about remembering and illustrates the poignancy of memory and longing through the prism of time passing.

Deb

The Paris Express, Emma Donoghue, 2025. Based on an actual journey in 1895, it follows passengers aboard an express train on a fateful journey to Paris.

The Coast, Chris Hammer, 2013. Travel the east coast of Australia with author’s memoirs, descriptions and histories of areas as you pass through, with a focus on climate change.

Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín, 2009. Beautifully written, navigating life and relationships between Ireland and America in the 1950s.

Linda

Edenglassie, Melissa Lucashenko, 2023. A humorous, mostly historical story set in Brisbane when First Nations people still outnumber the colonists.

The Tarot Reader of Versailles, Anya Bergman, 2025. A captivating epic novel set during the French Revolution.

Jane in Love, Rachel Givney, 2020. A fun time-travelling novel that has Jane Austen travelling to the future and falling in love – of course!

Stuart

Song of the Crocodile, Nardi Simpson, 2020 and

Prophet Song, Paul Lynch, 2023.

Two very different books about love and survival.

The Survivors, Jane Harper, 2020. Secrets, grief and guilt.

Angela

Theory and Practice, Michelle de Kretser, 2024. An honest and beautifully written book that plays with the form of the novel, exposes the inevitable contradictions between life as it is lived and the ideals we espouse and the guilt and shame that ensue, and is an unflinching critique of colonialism.

Always Home, Always Homesick, Hannah Kent, 2025. Her memoir of her year on a student exchange programme in Iceland, the setting of her book Burial Rites, and an exploration of the idea of home and the power of stories.

Tell Me Why, Archie Roach, 2019. The most moving account of his life, art and love. The book is gritty, challenging and real – totally involving and devastatingly emotional – bring tissues.