The Wild Girl... Book Description: Dortchen Wild fell in love with Wilhelm Grimm the first time she saw him. Growing up in the small German kingdom of Hessen-Cassel in the early Nineteenth century, Dortchen Wild is irresistibly drawn to the boy next door, the young and handsome fairy tale scholar Wilhelm Grimm. It is a … Continue reading Indepth Book Review: The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth
Month: May 2017
Book Review: The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
The Gilded Hour... Book Description: The international bestselling author of Into the Wilderness makes her highly anticipated return with a magnificent epic about the transcendent power of courage in 19th-century New York… The year is 1883, and although young surgeon Anna Savard and her cousin, Sophie, have become successful physicians, they never recovered from the … Continue reading Book Review: The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
Indepth Book Review: A Hundred Small Lessons by Ashley Hay
A Hundred Small Lessons... Book Description: A lyrical novel of two mothers from different generations and how their lives converge in one hot, wet summer. From the bestselling author of The Railwayman's Wife. When Elsie Gormley falls and is forced to leave her Brisbane home of 62 years, Lucy Kiss and her family move in, … Continue reading Indepth Book Review: A Hundred Small Lessons by Ashley Hay
Historical Fiction Spotlight
Each month over at the Australian Women Writers Challenge blog, I take a look at all of the reviews for historical fiction entered into the AWW review database for the previous month, and round them up into one mega review post. Here are the novels featured in this month's round up: The full post was … Continue reading Historical Fiction Spotlight
Book Review: The Brothers of Brigadier Station by Sarah Williams
The Brothers of Brigadier Station… Book Description: She came to the outback to marry the love of her life. She just didn't expect him to be her fiancé's younger brother. When Meghan Flanagan, a vet-nurse from Townsville, moves to Brigadier Station in outback Queensland to marry the man of her dreams, she is shocked to … Continue reading Book Review: The Brothers of Brigadier Station by Sarah Williams
Book Review: The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
The Natural Way of Things... Book Description: Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert in a story of two friends, sisterly love and courage - a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means … Continue reading Book Review: The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
Book Review: Handpicked by Cheryl Adnams
Handpicked...(The Muller's of McLaren Vale #3) Book Description: He who falls last, falls twice as hard. Has the last bachelor of Muller’s Field finally met his match? Andrew Muller has always enjoyed the single life. But now that his older brothers have found the loves of their lives, he’s beginning to see that being a … Continue reading Book Review: Handpicked by Cheryl Adnams
Book Review: Crimson Lake by Candice Fox
Crimson Lake... Book Description: 12.46: Thirteen-year-old Claire Bingley stands alone at a bus stop 12.47: Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her 12.52: The girl is missing . . . Six minutes – that’s all it took to ruin Detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. Accused but not convicted of Claire’s abduction, he escapes north, to the … Continue reading Book Review: Crimson Lake by Candice Fox
Book Review: The Liberation by Kate Furnivall
The Liberation... Book Description: Italy, 1945: as British and American troops attempt to bring order to the devastated cities, its population fights each other to survive. Caterina Lombardi is desperate - her mother has abandoned them already and her brother is being drawn into the mafia. Early one morning, among the ruins of the bombed … Continue reading Book Review: The Liberation by Kate Furnivall
Book Review: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre... Book Description: Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead and subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful … Continue reading Book Review: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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