Beauty & Lace Book Review: Facing the Flame (Matilda Saga, Book #7) by Jackie French
Title: Facing the Flame (Matilda Saga, Book #7) Author: Jackie French Published: November 20th 2017 Publisher: Harper Collins Books Australia Pages: 304 Genres: Fiction, Australian RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4 stars There have been fires before, but not like this. Heartbreaking and powerful, FACING THE FLAME is a story of the triumph of courage and community, and a love for the land so deep […]
Throwback Thursday Book Review: Wild Things by Chloe Neill
Welcome to a new 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! Today’s Throwback Thursday book review is from […]
From seasonal temperaments to political predispositions, the unconscious reasons we do what we do
Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do By John Bargh Simon and Schuster 352 pp; $35 Why do we do the things we do? It’s an age-old question, impacted as much by alcohol as inhibition, but Yale University professor Dr. John Bargh is out to prove there’s more than spirits […]
Book Review: The Three Miss Allens by Victoria Purman
Title: The Three Miss Allens Author: Victoria Purman Published: October 24th 2016 Publisher: Harlequin Books Australia Pages: 416 Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance RRP: $29.99 Rating: 5 stars In 1934, the three Miss Allens – Ruby, Adeline and Clara – arrive in the seaside town of Remarkable Bay for their annual summer holiday. It’s the last time they’ll spend summers as a family. Adeline is […]
Persepolis Rising
…and so here I am, writing a review for a book that I haven’t even received in the mail yet, and I realize just how upside-down the world has turned. I mean, YES, I was uber-excited to get the story early, but there’s just something that I miss about being able to turn the actual […]
New Release: Power Struggle by Paige Fieldsted
Power Struggle is Now Available!! I gave up on love twenty years ago. These days I only want hot sex. Jameson Beck is experienced, confident, and sinfully sexy— a perfect distraction from the murder trial taking over my life. But now I’m expected to work with him every day and ignore his never-ending advances? Yeah, […]
Book Review: At Hell’s Gate by Mark Abernethy
Title: At Hell’s Gate Author: Mark Abernethy Published: November 14th 2017 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia Pages: 336 Genres: Non Fiction, Biography, True Crime, War and Combat RRP: $29.99 “I deal with heavy, dangerous people. People who can bring a society undone.” The Contractor returns. Mike is a big unit. He builds houses and drives a ute. But he isn’t your typical tradie. […]
Do rock stars, in the truest sense of the cliché, still exist?
Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars By David Hepworth Henry Holt and Co. 320 pp; $39 If Post Malone’s new single, “Rock Star,” were actually a rock song, it probably wouldn’t have hit No. 1 in the United States (or No. 2 in Canada). “The rock era is over,” writes David […]
For Tina Brown, all’s fair in love, war and magazine publishing
The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992 By Tina Brown Henry Holt and Co. 448 pp; $42 “I am here in NYC at last, brimming with fear and insecurity. Getting in late last night on British Airways, I suddenly felt the enormousness of New York City, the noise of it, the speed of it, the lonely obliviousness […]
White Water, Black Death by Shaun Ebelthite
At first, I was convinced right along with the characters that there is a terrorist attack on the cruise ship, the Symphony. It opens with a janitor and it is obvious that he is unwell, especially when he vomits into his mop bucket and then continues cleaning. It’s very curious, not to mention beyond disgusting, […]