Published on 01 September 2026
Timboon Library Officer Ange shares her recommended read for September.
Historical fiction
The Silver Book was a fabulous well researched read!
Olivia Laing does not disappoint with this engaging tale of The silver screen, Italian life and history.
"The Silver Book is at once a queer love story and a noirish thriller, set in the dream factory of cinema. It’s a fictional account of real things, and an investigation into the difficult relationship between artifice and truth, illusion and reality, love and power."
This book sent me in search of classic Italian movies and sparked a fascination with the great directors in a time of rising tensions of Italy’s ‘Years of Lead’.