#Book Bingo 2019 Round 15: ‘Beloved Classic’- Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
Book Bingo 2019 is a collaboration challenge I am completing with my favourite bloggers, Theresa Smith Writes and The Book Muse. Each Saturday, on a fortnightly basis, beginning on Saturday 5th January 2019, Ashleigh, Theresa and I will complete a book review post, outlining our respective bingo card entries. The Book Bingo 2019 card contains a total of 30 […]
New Release Book Review: The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
Title: The Bride Test Author: Helen Hoang Published: July 1st 2019 Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pages: 312 Genres: Fiction RRP: $29.99 Rating: 3.5 stars Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions – like grief. And love. He thinks he’s defective. Khai’s family, however, […]
New Release Book Review: White Sands of Summer by J.H. Fletcher
Title: White Sands of Summer Author: J.H. Fletcher Published: May 20th 2019 Publisher: Mira – AU Pages: 416 Genres: Fiction, Historical RRP: $29.99 Rating: 3.5 stars Will wealth and love be theirs for the taking or will they run like sand through their fingers? No-one thought barmaid Shannon Harcourt stood a chance with Hal Maitland, heir to the vast Maitland fortune. […]
Book Review: The Runaway Daughter by Joanna Rees
Title: The Runaway Daughter Author: Joanna Rees Published: February 26th 2019 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 400 Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance RRP: $29.99 Rating: 3.5 stars It’s 1926 and Anna Darton is on the run from a terrible crime she was forced into committing. Alone and scared in London, salvation comes in the form of Nancy, a sassy American dancer at the notorious nightclub, The […]
Book Review: In a Great Southern Land by Mary-Anne O’Connor
Title: In a Great Southern Land Author: Mary-Anne OConnor Published: March 18th 2019 Publisher: HQ Fiction – AU Pages: 416 Genres: Fiction, Historical RRP: $32.99 Rating: 4.5 stars From the soft green hills of Ireland to the wild Shipwreck Coast of southern Victoria, the rich farm lands of New South Wales to the sudden battlefields of Ballarat, this is an epic story […]
New Release Book Review: Lost and Found by Danielle Steel
Title: Lost and Found Author: Danielle Steel Published: June 25th 2019 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 288 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Romance RRP: $29.99 Rating: 3 stars What might have been? This tantalizing question propels a woman on a cross-country adventure to reunite with the men she had loved and let go. Madison Allen is a renowned, career-driven photographer. Sifting through old photos in her fashionable New […]
Tea with Mrs B: Carol Jones
Welcome to Tea with Mrs B, an author interview series. Here to share a pot of tea and to chat about her brand new book, The Boy with Blue Trousers, is Carol Jones. Born in Brisbane, Australia, Carol Jones taught English and Drama at secondary schools before working as an editor of children’s magazines. She […]
New Release Book Review: The Boy with Blue Trousers by Carol Jones
Title: The Boy with Blue Trousers Author: Carol Jones Published: June 17th 2019 Publisher: Head of Zeus – GB Pages: 432 Genres: Fiction, Historical RRP: $32.99 Rating: 4.5 stars On the goldfields of 19th-century Australia, two very different girls are trying to escape their past. 1856, China. In the mulberry groves of the Pearl River Delta, eighteen-year-old Little Cat carries a terrible […]
New Release Book Review: You’ll Never See Me Again by Lesley Pearse
Title: You’ll Never See Me Again Author: Lesley Pearse Published: July 2nd 2019 Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Pages: 400 Genres: Fiction, Historical RRP: $32.99 Rating: 5 stars You have to keep running if you want to survive . . . When her husband returns shell-shocked and broken from the Great War and his mother makes her life a misery, Betty Wellow discovers how bitter […]
New Release Book Review: Those People by Louise Candlish
Title: Those People Author: Louise Candlish Published: July 1st 2019 Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Pages: 400 Genres: Fiction, Crime, Mystery RRP: $29.99 Rating: 3.5 stars MEET THE NEIGHBOURS YOU’LL LOVE TO HATE Until Darren and Jodie move in, Lowland Way is a suburban paradise. Beautiful homes. Friendly neighbours. Kids playing out in the street. But Darren and Jodie don’t follow the rules and […]