Title: Up on Horseshoe Hill Author: Penelope Janu Published: November 18th 2019 Publisher: Mira – AU Pages: 416 Genres:  Fiction, Contemporary, Romance RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4 stars A kiss can change your life … Jemima Kincaid loves her home, her horses and her job as a farrier. Life has not been kind to her, but Jemima is happy […]

Jeremy Winter, Special Agent with the FBI, is wondering how he ever came to St. Louis, after decades in Washington, D.C. He investigates murders and especially likes catching an occasional serial killer. St Louis has him dealing with white-collar crimes. Somebody has to do it, but boy, is he bored. His girlfriend and her little […]

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 third #3 checkpoint category for the POPSUGAR READING CHALLENGE 2020 with: ARIA Award-winning singer and actress Clare Bowditch confronts her inner critic in this no-holds-barred memoir. This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough – and well enough – to […]

Title: Cilka’s Journey Author: Heather Morris Published: October 1st 2019 Publisher: Echo Publishing Pages: 488 Genres: Fiction, Historical RRP: $32.99 Her beauty saved her life – and condemned her. In 1942 Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from […]

Title: Mr Archimedes’ Bath Author/Illustrator: Pamela Allen Published: January 20th 2020 Publisher: Harper Collins Pages: 32 Genres:  Children (0+) RRP: $24.99 Revisit an age-old theory in a fresh new way. Every time Mr Archimedes has a bath with his friends, the water overflows. Somebody must be putting extra water in the bath. Is it Kangaroo? Or is it Goat or […]

Title: Would Like to Meet Author: Rachel Winters Published: November 26th 2019 Publisher: Hachette Australia Pages: 304 Genres:  Fiction, Contemporary, RRP: $32.99 Rating:  3 stars A laugh-out-loud comedy with a strong cinematic hook. Can you fall in love like they do in the movies? Long-suffering assistant Evie Summers will lose her job unless she can convince her film agency’s […]

Title: The World That We Knew Author: Alice Hoffman Published: October 1st 2019 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia Pages: 384 Genres: Fiction, Historical RRP: $29.99 Rating: 3 stars In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a […]

Title: The Sisters of Auschwitz Author: Roxane van Iperen Published: November 12th 2019 Publisher: Hachette Australia Pages: 320 Genres: Biograhy, History, Political, Military RRP: $32.99 Rating: 4 stars The life-affirming story of female bravery, Jewish Nazi resistance and surviving the horrors of Auschwitz WINNER of the Opzij Literature Prize 2019! During the Second World War two Jewish sisters – Janny and […]

Title: Maggie’s Going Nowhere Author: Rose Hartley Published: January 7th 2020 Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Pages: 352 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary RRP: $32.99 Rating: 4.5 stars Maggie Cotton’s life is a hot mess. In one day, she’s dumped by her boyfriend, disinherited by her mum, and kicked out of the three-year degree she’d stretched to a decade. And that was before she received […]