Title: The Treatment Author: C.L. Taylor Published: October 19th 2017 Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Australia Pages: 384 Genres:  Fiction, Contemporary, Young Adult, Thriller RRP: $19.99 Rating: 3.5 stars “You have to help me. We’re not being reformed. We’re being brainwashed.” All sixteen year old Drew Finch wants is to be left alone. She’s not interested in spending time with her mum and stepdad and […]

I’ve been meaning to read this guy’s books for quite a while now. Well, ever since his first book came out, because I heard it was pretty awesome, and how could you not love a story that mixed magic with black powder? For whatever reason, though, I just never picked one up. Until I listened […]

By Terra Arnone The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido David Friend Twelve 640 pp; $36.00 Satirized, Simpsonized and spoofed the world over, Bill Clinton’s 1998 response to tabloid allegations of his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky has remained one of the 20th century’s foremost sex scandals. It’s from that infamous statement, […]

Graduate student Anna Cohen works on the T1 cache site. (Dave Yonder/National Geographic Creative) This month in book reviews: What The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have to do with climate change. A sequel to Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus. An author and character, one and the same. A champion of metamorphosis. […]

Title: The Gumnut Babies –  Centenary Edition Author: May Gibbs Published: August 22 2016 (Originally 1916) Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Australia Pages: 272 Genres:  Fiction, Children RRP: $39.99 Beautiful new Centenary edition to celebrate the publication of May Gibbs’s first book, GUMNUT BABIES, in 1916. May Gibbs’s marvellous creation – the Gumnut world, with its tiny heroes and heroines and deliciously […]

We’ve followed Lady Trent from the mountains of Vystrana to war-torn Eriga to the high seas to the deserts of the Akhia all for the sake of studying dragons. Now here we are at the fifth and final novel in this fantastic series, WITHIN THE SANCTUARY OF WINGS, and finale well worthy of Isabella and company. […]

Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook By Alice Waters with Cristina Mueller and Bob Carrau Clarkson Potter 320 pp; $36 Today, it’s fairly commonplace to open a fine-dining restaurant menu and learn a dish’s provenance down to the salad greens. But back in 1971, when Alice Waters flung open the doors […]

A more than 10-foot-high chromium stainless steel sculpture of a balloon-animal dog, titled “Balloon Dog,” by contemporary artist Jeff Koons.(Charles Rex Arbogast/AP/CP) This month in book reviews: A devastating reflection on tyrannical North Korea. A dystopian tale of a future American civil war. Read more below and check out the rest of our book reviews. THE […]

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! It is Mrs R’s turn to deliver […]

There is a certain way that little old ladies look at you when they find you reading books with covers like this one. There were several times while reading the book, however, that not only did I catch some of those little-old-lady glances, but I caught myself looking at the book itself with what I […]