Title: The Banksia Bay Beach Shack Author: Sandie Docker Published: March 17th 2020 Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Pages: 384 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Historical RRP: $32.99 Rating: 5 stars The heartwarming new family saga from the bestselling author of The Kookaburra Creek Café. A year is a long time in the memory of a small town. Stories get twisted, truths become warped, history is […]

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 […]

Title: The Girls with No Names Author: Serena Burdick Published: January 20th 2020 Publisher: HQ Fiction – US Pages: 352 Genres:  Fiction, Historical RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4 stars The Girls with No Names pulls readers into the gilded age of New York City in the 1910s, when suffragettes marched in the street, unions fought for better work conditions – and […]

Title: You Are Not Alone Author: Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen Published: February 25th 2020 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 352 Genres:  Fiction, Contemporary, Suspense , Thriller RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4 stars Shay Miller has three strikes against her: no job, no apartment, no love in her life. But when she witnesses a perfectly normal looking young woman about her age make the chilling decision […]

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 seventh #7 checkpoint category for the POPSUGAR READING CHALLENGE 2020 with: Jenny is unloved, unemployable and emotionally unfiltered. Her long-suffering friends seem sick of her and whilst her social media portrays her life as a bed of roses, it is more of a dying succulent. Could things get any […]

Title: The Girl in the Painting Author: Tea Cooper Published: December 16th 2019 Publisher: HQ Fiction – AU Pages: 384 Genres:  Fiction, Historical RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4.5 stars For readers of The True Story of Maddie Bright, The Woman in the Green Dress and The Birdman’s Wife comes this atmospheric and richly detailed Australian historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author. Maitland 1913 Miss […]

Title: Sharks in the Time of Saviours Author: Kawai Strong Washburn Published: March 3rd 2020 Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Pages: 384 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary RRP: $32.99 Rating: 3 stars A powerful debut novel that delicately blends Hawaiian myth with the broken American dream. ‘The next time I went for air you were at the surface, sideways, prone and ragdolling in the […]

Title: The River Home Author: Hannah Richell Published: February 25th 2020 Publisher: Hachette Australia Pages: 368 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary RRP: $29.99 Rating: 5 stars The river can take you home. But the river can also drag you under… ‘It’s something she learned years ago – the hard way – and that she knows she will never forget: even the sweetest […]

Title: Truths I Never Told You Author: Kelly Rimmer Published: February 25th 2020 Publisher: Hachette Australia Pages: 352 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Historical RRP: $29.99 Rating: 5 stars It begins with the discovery of a tattered letter in the attic … A heart-tugging story of family secrets by the Top 10 bestselling Australian author 1959: Grace is a young mother with four children […]