Reviews

Review: Tabitha Bird’s A Lifetime of Impossible Days

June 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

Review: Tabitha Bird’s A Lifetime of Impossible Days A Lifetime of Impossible Days Tabitha Bird Meet Willa Waters, aged 8 . . . 33 . . . and 93. On one impossible day in 1965, eight-year-old Willa receives a mysterious box containing a jar of water and the instruction: ‘One ocean: [...]

Review: Sasha Wasley’s Love Song

June 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

Book of the Month: Sasha Wasley’s Love Song Love Song Sasha Wasley There was something about Charlie. Something about the way he questioned and teased her, brought her outside of herself … the way he’d made her crash headlong into love just by singing to her. At age seventeen, Beth [...]

REVIEW: Kerri Turner’s ‘The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers’

February 5, 2019 // 1 Comment

The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers Kerri Turner Petrograd, 1914. A country on a knife edge. The story of two people caught in the middle – with everything to lose… Valentina Yershova’s position in the Romanov’s Imperial Russian Ballet is the only thing that keeps her from the clutches [...]

REVIEW & New Release Alert: Tania Blanchard’s ‘Suitcase of Dreams’

November 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

REVIEW & New Release Alert: Tania Blanchard’s ‘Suitcase of Dreams’ Suitcase of Dreams Tania Blanchard From the bestselling author of The Girl from Munich, a sweeping, dramatic tale of love and identity, inspired by a true story After enduring the horror of Nazi Germany and [...]

Review: Hannah Richell’s ‘The Peacock Summer’

June 18, 2018 // 1 Comment

The Peacock Summer Hannah Richell Two summers, decades apart. Two women whose lives are forever entwined. And a house that holds the secrets that could free them both. At twenty-six, Lillian feels ancient and exhausted. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she thought [...]

REVIEW: Alli Sinclair’s ‘Burning Fields’

May 28, 2018 // 1 Comment

REVIEW: Alli Sinclair’s ‘Burning Fields’ Burning Fields Alli Sinclair 1948 The world is struggling to regain a sense of balance after the devastation of World War II, and the sugar cane–growing community of Piri River in northern Queensland is no exception. As returned [...]

Review: Jackie French’s ‘The Lily and the Rose’

March 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Lily and the Rose Jackie French The war is over. But can there ever truly be peace? Australian heiress Sophie Higgs was ‘a rose of no-man’s land’, founding hospitals across war-torn Europe during the horror that was WW1. Now, in the 1920s, Sophie’s wartime work [...]

#280CharacterReviews—March 2018

March 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

#280CharacterReviews—March 2018 Liberated by Mel Teshco Eloise is a strong female character who perfectly suits the complexity of brothers Julian and Saxon. Their #MFM love triangle is a natural and anticipation filled affair, testament to @melteshco’s experience writing erotic [...]

Review: James Moloney’s ‘The Love That I Have’

March 19, 2018 // 1 Comment

The Love That I Have James Moloney For fans of The Book Thief, a powerful and heartbreaking story set during WW2 that stays with you long after the final page is read. Margot Baumann hasleft school to take up her sister’s job in the mailroom of a large prison. Butthis is Germany in [...]

Review: Julian Leatherdale’s ‘The Opal Dragonfly’

March 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Opal Dragonfly Julian Leatherdale “Miss Isobel Clara Macleod, youngest of the seven children of Major Sir Angus Hutton Macleod, Surveyor-General of the colony of New South Wales, had the singular misfortune to know that at seven o’clock that morning her father was going to [...]