Marsden Park Series

Marsden park is a new suburb that is rapidly growing on the outer edges of Western Sydney. Bisected by Richmond Road, the suburb now has a Homemaker Center, Costco, Shopping Village, and several new housing estates.

Throughout my library degree, I’ve had to create a fictional library to base a number of my assignments on. I created the Marsden Park library, with grand visions of it one day becoming reality (one can dream). In this imaginary world, Marsden Park has split away from the Blacktown council, and has its own council area.

It’s a huge modern library; the bottom level is similar to the Penrith library, which has all of the physical collection and children’s section downstairs. My imaginary library also has an extensive underground archive, and upstairs, is a large makerspace, the Indigenous collection, and tech rooms for classes.

Similar to Penrith, the library is attached to the council building, so it is easy to walk between the two sections. It has a large auditorium, and it is located next to a large Westfield shopping center. I drew most of my inspiration from Penrith, where I did my professional placement a few years back.

The Marsden Park series started with Catalogue of Disaster which was set within this library. It has since been pulled from circulation until such time as I can rewrite and re-release it.

Beneath the Grandstand is still available in all marketplaces on Amazon, Kindle Unlimited, and paperbacks from my online store.