Title: Eleanor’s Secret Author: Caroline Beecham Published: April 24th 2018 Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pages: 432 Genres: Fiction, Historical/Contemporary, Mystery RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4.5 stars An engrossing wartime mystery of past deceptions, family secrets and long-lasting love… London, 1942 When art school graduate, Eleanor Roy, is recruited by the War Artists Advisory Committee, she comes one step closer to realising her dream of […]

Title: Surprise Me Author: Sophie Kinsella Published: February 12th 2018 Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Pages: 368 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary RRP: $32.99 Rating: 5 stars NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie Kinsella’s emotionally charged, witty new standalone novel about love and long-term relationship survival – and how those we think we know best can sometimes surprise us the most . . . After being together for […]

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: Bestselling author Rachael Johns takes you back […]

Title: The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan Author: Gia Cribbs Published: May 21st 2018 Publisher: Harlequin Teen Pages: 400 Genres:  Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller, Mystery, Young Adult RRP: $29.99 Rating: 3 stars No one wants me to tell you about the disappearance of Sloane Sullivan. Not the lawyers or the cops. Not her friends or family. Not even the boy who loved her more than […]

To celebrate the release of Eleanor’s Secret, author Caroline Beecham’s second novel published by Allen & Unwin, I have a Q & A with Caroline I would love to share with you all. It is true pleasure to welcome Caroline to Mrs B’s Book Reviews for a Q & A session. This Q & A will follow a review […]

#Book Bingo 2018 is a collaboration challenge I am completing with my favourite blogger, Theresa Smith Writes. How does it work?  We have devised our own personalised book bingo card game. Twice a month, on the first and third Saturday of the month, Theresa and I will complete a book review post, outlining our respective bingo card entries. […]

Title: The Greek Escape Author: Karen Swan Published: April 24th 2018 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 432 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4 stars Before every new beginning, there must be an ending Running from heartbreak, Chloe Marston leaves her old life in London for a fresh start in New York. Working at a luxury concierge company, she makes other people’s lives run perfectly, even […]

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: You’d always recognise your own child. Wouldn’t […]

Title: Fart Monster and Me: The Crash Landing & Fart Monster and Me: The New School Author:  Tim Miller and Matt Stanton Published: April 23rd 2018 Publisher: Harper Collins Books Australia (ABC Books) Pages: 64 Genres:  Children (5+) RRP: $7.99 Rating: 4 stars Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Are those clouds shaped like bottoms?! Nothing exciting has ever happened in Ben […]

Milk: A 10,000 Year Fracas By Mark Kurlansky Bloomsbury (384 pp) $29          Mark Kurlansky is the master of the modern microhistory, those epic cultural and social investigations into a single, often quotidian, topic. His 1997 book, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, became an international bestseller translated […]