Title: Unexpected Delivery Author: Leanne Lovegrove Published: May 20th 2018 Publisher: Leanne Lovegrove Pages: 266 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Australian, Rural, Romance Rating: 4.5 stars Life can be unexpected… Lawyer, Vivienne Greene is pulled from her comfortable office job to a temporary position in the country performing property foreclosures. Vivienne knows she’s in trouble when her first day goes horribly wrong and […]

Title: Justice (Angel Calling) Author: Georgia Tingley Published: March 1st 2018 Publisher: Georgeous Publishing Pages: 314 Genres: Fiction, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Paranormal, Supernatural RRP: $27.50 Rating: 3 stars Independence Day, 4th July, 1976 – Thirteen-year-old Christine Conroy mysteriously vanishes from her back yard in a small country town in North Western USA. Folks think Christine has run away to Hollywood as she […]

Title: The Escape Room Author: Megan Goldin Published: May 28th 2018 Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Pages: 320 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Crime, Thriller RRP: $32.99 Rating: 4.5 stars ‘Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive.’  In the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie and Sam are the ultimate high-flyers. Ruthlessly ambitious, they make billion-dollar deals and live […]

Title: Missing in Action Author: Marianne van Velzen Published: June 1st 2018 Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pages: 288 Genres: Non Fiction, History, War RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4.5 stars Poor leadership, mismanagement, quarrels, distrust and accusations of hoaxing … this is the story of what happened after the guns were laid down and Australians tried to find their war dead. By the end of World […]

Title: The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Author: Ruth Hogan Published: May 3rd 2018 Publisher: Two Roads for Hodder & Stoughton Pages: 352 Genres:  Fiction, Contemporary Rating: 4 stars Masha’s life has stopped. Once a spirited, independent woman with a rebellious streak, her life has been forever changed by a tragic event twelve years ago. Unable to let go of her grief, she […]

Title: Ghosted Author: Rosie Walsh Published: June 12th 2018 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Genres: Fiction, Contemporary RRP: $29.99 Rating: 5 stars If you’ve ever found yourself waiting for a call that didn’t come, Ghosted by Rosie Walsh is the book for you. Imagine you meet a man, spend seven glorious days together, and fall in love. And it’s mutual: you’ve never been so certain of anything. […]

Welcome to a weekly post, Throwback Thursday. This weekly book review post is a way to share some old favourites, books that were published over a year ago and most importantly those books that have been languishing on the to be read pile for far too long! Synopsis: It is 1914 and Lithgow is booming. […]

Title: Bluebottle Author: Belinda Castles Published: May 23rd 2018 Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pages: 256 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Australian RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4 stars On a sweltering day in a cliff-top beach shack, Jack and Lou Bright grow suspicious about the behaviour of their charismatic, unpredictable father, Charlie. A girl they know has disappeared, and as the day unfolds, Jack’s eruptions of panic, Lou’s […]

Title: A Place To Remember Author: Jenn J. McLeod Published: March 19th 2018 Publisher: Harper Collins Books Australia (Head of Zeus  –  GB) Pages: 452 Genres:  Fiction, Contemporary, Australian, Romance RRP: $29.99 Rating: 5 stars A multi-generational contemporary romantic saga set in a cattle ranch in Central Queensland, Australia. A man loses five years of his life. Two women are desperate for him to […]

Title: The Butterfly Dance Author:  Suzanne Barton Published: May 1st 2018 Publisher: Bloomsbury Australia Pages: 32 Genres:  Children (0-5) RRP: $14.99 Rating: 4 stars Caterpillars Dotty and Stripe do everything together. They play, they eat leaves and do all sorts of caterpiller-y things, and then one day, after spinning themselves into snuggly cocoons, they wake up as beautiful butterflies! But soon they realise that, […]