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, Shadows Over Wongan Creek, is Juanita Kees.   Writing fun, action-packed, sexy stories filled with feisty, caring characters ready to risk everything for love. Juanita graduated from the Australian College […]

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 […]

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 […]

Title: Lawson’s Bend Author: Nicole Hurley-Moore Published: February 4th 2019 Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pages: 328 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Romance, Rural, Mystery, Crime, Suspense RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4.5 stars For a long time Lawson’s Bend had held little for Henny. Almost ten years ago she’d got out and vowed never to come back. But sometimes things change . . . In the hot summer […]

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 Things We Cannot Say, is Kelly Rimmer. Kelly Rimmer has sold over 600,000 digital copies of her previous four novels: ME WITHOUT YOU, THE SECRET DAUGHTER, WHEN I LOST […]

Title: Dippy’s Big Day Out Author: Jackie French, Bruce Whatley Concept by Ben Smith Whatley Published: January 29th 2019 Publisher: Harper Collins Pages: 32 Genres:  Children (3+) RRP: $24.99 Rating: 4 stars AN ‘ICE AGE’ MEETS DIARY OF A WOMBAT STORY Dippy is a diprotodon, the BIGGEST, friendliest wombat who lived 100,000 years ago. All Dippy wants is happy friends, a place to sleep and […]

Title: The Secret of the Youngest Rebel (The Secret Histories, Book 5) Author: Jackie French Published: January 29th 2019 Publisher: Harper Collins Pages: 128 Genres:  Children (7+) RRP: $14.99 Rating: 3.5 stars The whisper in the darkness is: rebellion! (Or: death or liberty!) Frog is an orphan, a pickpocket, starving on the streets of Parramatta in 1804. But when the tall, commanding Irish […]

Title: The House of Second Chances Author: Esther Campion Published: February 12th 2019 Publisher: Hachette Australia Pages: 400 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary RRP: $29.99 Rating: 3.5 stars Can a house heal heartache? From coastal Australia to the rugged beauty of Ireland, an enchanting novel of starting over, in the tradition of Maeve Binchy and Monica McInerney Their grandmother’s stone cottage was always a welcome retreat in […]

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 House of Second Chances, is Esther Campion. Esther Campion is from Cork, Ireland and currently lives in north-west Tasmania. She attended North Presentation Secondary School in Cork and has degrees […]

Title: The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers Author: Kerri Turner Published: January 21st 2019 Publisher: HQ Fiction – AU Pages: 336 Genres:  Fiction, Historical RRP: $29.99 Rating: 4 stars Petrograd, 1914. A country on a knife edge. The story of two people caught in the middle – with everything to lose… A stunning debut from a talented new Australian voice in historical fiction. […]