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 Emerald Tablet, is Meaghan Wilson Anastasios.     Meaghan Wilson Anastasios spent her formative years in Melbourne before travelling and working as an archaeologist in the Mediterranean and Middle […]

Title: When It All Went to Custard Author: Danielle Hawkins Published: April 15th 2019 Publisher: Harper Collins – NZ Pages: 400 Genres:  Fiction, Contemporary RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4 stars For those who love Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Alexander McCall Smith and novels with heart, soul and a dose of commonsense. I wasn’t enjoying the afternoon of 23 February even before I learnt […]

Title: Operation Babylift Author: Ian W. Shaw Published: May 28th 2019 Publisher: Hachette Australia Pages: 336 Genres: Non Fiction, History RRP: $32.99 Rating: 4 stars The dramatic and heart-warming story of the last-minute evacuation of hundreds of orphaned babies from South Vietnam in the dying days of the Vietnam War and of the brave Australian nurses who made it happen. In late March 1975, […]

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, Security, is Susan Hoddy. Susan Hoddy is a young-adult fiction writer, best known for her Lepidoptera Vampire Series. Susan was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1966, and enjoys a […]

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 […]

Marley Cicero is a woman who has accepted the life-time award as a loser. She’s lost jobs, every job, boyfriends, every one of them and money, every cent. So without too much explanation, she has moved home to her parents. Culpepper is a small town, where gossip is the main entertainment and always has been. […]

Title: Love and Other Battles Author: Tess Woods Published: June 17th 2019 Publisher: Harper Collins – AU Pages: 336 Genres:  Fiction, Contemporary RRP: $32.99 Rating: 5 stars Three generations of women. Three heartbreaking choices. One unforgettable story. 1969: Free-spirited hippie Jess James has no intention of falling for a soldier … but perhaps some things are not in our power to stop. […]

Title: Trails in the Dust Author: Joy Dettman Published: June 25th 2019 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 368 Genres:  Fiction, Contemporary, Saga RRP: $32.99 Rating: 4 stars After many tumultuous years spent grappling with the past, Jenny Hooper might have expected her latter years to be the best of her life, and they are – until tragedy strikes. Left floundering in a house full of […]

Title: The Girl They Left Behind Author: Roxanne Veletzos Published: December 1st 2018 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia Pages: 368 Genres: Fiction, Historical RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4.5 stars Inspired by the author’s true family story of survival during the Second World War, Natalia’s story is an unforgettable portrait of the triumph of the human spirit. ‘In anguish and despair we release this child into […]

Title: The Nancys Author: R.W.R. McDonald Published: June 3rd 2019 Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pages: 400 Genres: Fiction RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4 stars Tippy Chan is eleven and lives in a small town in a very quiet part of the world – the place her Uncle Pike escaped from the first chance he got as a teenager. Now Pike is back with his new […]