Today I am marking off my twenty fifth #25th checkpoint category for the POPSUGAR READING CHALLENGE 2020 with: Highway robber. Convict. Runaway. Mother. She will do anything for freedom, but at what cost? Jenny Trelawney is no ordinary thief. Forced by poverty to live in the forest, she becomes a successful highwaywoman – until her […]

Book Bingo 2020 is a collaboration challenge I am completing for the third year with my favourite bloggers, Theresa Smith Writes and The Book Muse. On the second Saturday of each month, beginning on Saturday 11th January 2020, Theresa, Ashleigh and I will complete a book review post, outlining our respective bingo card entries. The Book Bingo 2020 card […]

Title: Bottlebrush Creek Author: Maya Linnell Published: June 2nd 2020 Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pages: 352 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Romance, Rural RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4 stars A pitch-perfect rural romance of changing relationships and family ties from the bestselling author of Wildflower Ridge. Between managing a bustling beauty salon, hectic volunteer commitments and the lion’s share of parenting two-year-old Claudia, Angie McIntyre barely […]

Title: The Goldminer’s Sister Author: Alison Stuart Published: July 8th 2020 Publisher: Mira – AU Pages: 400 Genres:  Fiction, Historical, Romance RRP: $29.99 Rating: 5 stars Gold is a fever. Will it lead her to love … or death? A suspenseful romance set on the turbulent goldfields of 1870s Australia, for readers of The Postmistress and The Woman in the Green Dress. […]

In a desperate bid to reduce the books that are collecting dust on my TBR shelves, I have decided to collaborate with another avid reader and fellow book reviewer, Nicole from Certified Book Addicts. The #20BACKLISTIN2020 challenge is a self paced challenge hosted by Jaylamm.Reads, Reading and Sunshine, and Cassidys.Bookshelf. The overall goal of this challenge is to read […]

Today I am marking off my twenty fourth #24th checkpoint category for the POPSUGAR READING CHALLENGE 2020 with: On an island off the windswept Irish coast, guests gather for the wedding of the year – the marriage of Jules Keegan and Will Slater. Old friends. Past grudges. Happy families. Hidden jealousies. Thirteen guests. One body. […]

Title: Confessions of a Forty Something Author: Alexandra Potter Published: April 28th 2020 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 512 Genres:  Fiction, Contemporary, Romance RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4 stars Nell Stevens’ life is a mess. When her business goes bust and her relationship with it, Nell’s happy ever after in California falls apart and she moves back to London to start over. But a […]

Title: Where the Dead Go Author: Sarah Bailey Published: August 5th 2019 Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pages: 464 Genres:  Fiction, Contemporary, Crime, Mystery RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4 stars Four years after the events of Into the Night, DS Gemma Woodstock is on the trail of a missing girl in a small coastal town. ‘Every bit as addictive and suspenseful as The Dark Lake … […]

Title: The Stockman’s Secret Author: Mandy Magro Published: May 18th 2020 Publisher: Mira – AU Pages: 336 Genres:  Fiction, Contemporary, Romance RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4 stars From a leading rural romance author comes an inspiring novel about having the courage to forgive past mistakes, set in the heart of the Australian countryside. Secrets can unite, and they can divide. Will he […]

Title: Alexandra Rose and her Icy-Cold Toes Author: Monique Mulligan Illustrator: Kat Fox Published: June 11th 2020 Publisher: Serenity Press Pages: 32 Genres:  Children (3+) RRP: $26.99 Alexandra Rose has ice-cold toes and she knows the best way to warm them up. But will her family like her foot-warming, wake-up-fast idea as much as she does? Fergus the Farting Dragon and My Silly Mum author […]