Audio Book Review: The Family by Naomi Krupitsky
Title: The Family Author: Naomi Krupitsky Published: October 27th 2021 Publisher: HarperCollins GB Pages: 368 Genres: Fiction, General RRP: $29.99 Rating: 3.5 stars A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself. Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate. Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud […]
New Release Book Review & GIVEAWAY: The Things That Matter Most by Gabbie Stroud
Title: The Things That Matter Most Author: Gabbie Stroud Published: August 1st 2023 Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pages: 368 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary RRP: $32.99 Rating: 4.5 stars The staff of St Margaret’s Primary School are hanging by a thread. There’s serious litigation pending, the school is due for registration, and a powerful parent named Janet Bellevue has a lot to say about everything. As […]
Book Review: Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
Title: Then She Was Gone Author: Lisa Jewell Published: July 27th 2017 Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Pages: 448 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Crime, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller RRP: $22.99 Rating: 5 stars She was fifteen, her mother’s golden girl.She had her whole life ahead of her.And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone. Ten years on, Laurel has never given up hope of […]
Book Review: Wake by Shelley Burr
Title: Wake Author: Shelley Burr Published: April 27th 2022 Publisher: Hachette Australia Pages: 368 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Crime, Mystery RRP: $32.99 Rating: 4 stars A Top Ten bestseller, WAKE is a searing debut crime novel where the grief and guilt surrounding an unsolved disappearance still haunt a small farming community . . . and will ultimately lead to a reckoning.Evelyn simply vanished. The small town […]
New Release Book Review: Ripper by Shelley Burr
Title: Ripper Author: Shelley Burr Published: August 30th 2023 Publisher: Hachette Australia Pages: 352 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Crime, Mystery RRP: $32.99 Rating: 4 stars Gemma Guillory has lived in Rainier her entire life. She knows the tiny town’s ins and outs like the back of her hand, the people like they are her family, their quirks as if they were her own. […]
New Release Book Review: Reinventing Emily Brown by Jodi Gibson
Title: Reinventing Emily Brown Author: Jodi Gibson Published: September 19th 2023 Publisher: Verb Publishing Pages: 342 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Women’s Fiction RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4 stars For readers of Beth O’Leary, REINVENTING EMILY BROWN is a delightful story exploring the theme of second chances in both life and love. Told with a seamless blend of humour and heart, readers are invited along with Emily, her teenage […]
New Release Book Review: War of Hearts by Tania Farrelly
Title: War of Hearts Author: Tania Farrelly Published: September 19th 2023 Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Pages: 432 Genres: Fiction, Historical, War RRP: $32.99 Rating: 5 stars A heart-stopping novel of love in a time of war, ideal for fans of Fiona McIntosh and Natasha Lester. In 1917 America’s declaration of war against Germany gives Grace Winter, a keen-eyed New York Times investigative reporter, a […]
New Release Book Review: Lowbridge by Lucy Campbell
Title: Lowbridge Author: Lucy Campbell Published: July 5th 2023 Publisher: Ultimo Press Pages: 384 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller RRP: $34.99 Rating: 4 stars Where everybody knows everyone, how can somebody just disappear? A missing girl. Decades of silence. A secret too big to bury. 1987: It’s late summer and a time of change when 17-year-old Tess Dawes leaves the local shopping centre in the […]
New Release Book Review: Back on Track by Tricia Stringer
Title: Back on Track Author: Tricia Stringer Published: October 4th 2023 Publisher: HQ Fiction – AU Pages: 464 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Women RRP: $32.99 Rating: 4 stars Bestselling author and voice of Australian storytelling Tricia Stringer tackles troubled relationships, ageism, and love old and new in this warm, funny, uplifting story of colleagues and unlikely travel companions thrown together on an astonishing (and […]
Three new books to read this fall
(Courtesy of HarperCollins Canada) Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From By Kamal Al-Solaylee (HarperCollins, Sept. 7) In a world awash with migrants, many are looking not forward but back, to homes, families and languages left behind, writes the critically acclaimed Toronto author. Al-Solaylee portrays the conflicted emotions of a diaspora of […]