Title: The Long Road Home Author: Fiona McCallum Published: March 23rd 2020 Publisher: HQ Fiction –  AU Pages: 432 Genres:  Fiction, Contemporary RRP: $32.99 Rating: 4 stars You can’t find where you truly belong until you discover who you really are… Alice Hamilton is enjoying her new life in Ballarat with the freedom to explore her future now she’s stepped […]

Today I am marking off my twelfth #12 checkpoint category for the POPSUGAR READING CHALLENGE 2020 with: With film rights snapped up by an Oscar winning Hollywood production company, rights sold in a world record 43 territories, and rave blurbs from David Baldacci, Lee Child and A.J. Finn, The Silent Patient is the international, million-copy bestseller that […]

Title: Whitethorne Author: Nene Davies Published: August 8th 2018 Publisher: Hammer and Tongs Publishing Pages: 332 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Rating: 3.5 stars Catherine Whitethorne has emerald eyes. She stands 5’7 in sheer black stockings. Her hair is long and dark and thick with shiny waves. She has the body of a goddess; iridescent as sunlight, seductive as a mermaid. She smiles […]

Title: The Cedar Tree Author: Nicole Alexander Published: March 3rd 2020 Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Pages: 384 Genres: Fiction, Historical RRP: $32.99 Rating: 4.5 stars Spanning two centuries, Nicole Alexander’s compelling new novel is a story of love and faith, destiny and betrayal, in a land as richly diverse as the secrets it keeps. In the spring of 1949, Stella […]

Title: The Animals at Lockwood Manor Author: Jane Healey Published: March 10th 2020 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 336 Genres:  Fiction, Historical Rating: 4 stars RRP: $29.99 Some secrets are unspoken. Others are unspeakable . . . August 1939. Thirty-year-old Hetty Cartwright is tasked with the evacuation and safekeeping of the natural history museum’s collection of mammals. Once she and her exhibits […]

Title: The Shifting Landscape Author: Katherine Kovacic Published: March 31st 2020 Publisher: Echo Publishing Pages: 304 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Crime, Mystery, Thriller RRP: $29.99 Rating: 5 stars Art dealer Alex Clayton travels to Victoria’s Western District to value the McMillan family’s collection. At their historic sheep station, she finds an important and previously unknown colonial painting – and a family fraught with […]

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 […]

Today I am marking off my eleventh #11 checkpoint category for the POPSUGAR READING CHALLENGE 2020 with: Part human. Part robot. All hero! Ethan is supposed to be doing regular teenage things – like playing sports and hanging out with friends. He is not supposed to be in hospital getting a brain tumour removed by Gemini, a […]

Title: The End of Cuthbert Close Author: Cassie Hamer Published: March 23rd 2020 Publisher: HQ Fiction – AU Pages: 464 Genres:  Fiction, Contemporary, Women RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4 stars You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your neighbours. (Trad. proverb, origin: Australian suburbia) Food stylist Cara, corporate lawyer Alex and stay-at-home mum Beth couldn’t be more different. If […]

Title: Cold Storage Author: David Koepp Published: September 24th 2019 Publisher: HQ Fiction – GB Pages: 320 Genres:  Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller, Suspense RRP: $29.99 Rating: 3 stars When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. Now, after decades of festering […]