It’s bingo Saturday once again – that rolled around fast! The square I’ve filled for this entry is: A prize winning book The Yellow House was recently announced as winner of the 2018 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award - an award for an unpublished manuscript to an author under the age of 35. The Yellow … Continue reading Bingo! The Yellow House by Emily O’Grady
Month: Jun 2018
Book A Day: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Day 3: The Goldfinch Clearly, my book a day challenge is not an everyday thing like it's probably intended, but I'm a big fan of making challenges work in with your own needs and what I need right now is a challenge that I can post on the days when I don't have any other … Continue reading Book A Day: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
New Release Book Review: Love Will Tear Us Apart by Holly Seddon
Love Will Tear Us Apart... About the Book: Fearing eternal singledom, childhood friends Kate and Paul make the age-old vow that if they don't find love by thirty, they will marry each other. Years later, with the deadline of their 30th birthdays approaching, the unlikely couple decide to keep their teenage promise. After all, they … Continue reading New Release Book Review: Love Will Tear Us Apart by Holly Seddon
New Release Book Review: The Peacock Summer by Hannah Richell
The Peacock Summer... About the Book: Two summers, decades apart. Two women whose lives are forever entwined. And a house that holds the secrets that could free them both. At twenty-six, Lillian feels ancient and exhausted. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she thought it would. To her it seems … Continue reading New Release Book Review: The Peacock Summer by Hannah Richell
New Release Book Review: Hive by A.J. Betts
Hive... About the Book: All I can tell you is what I remember, in the words that I have. Hayley tends to her bees and follows the rules in the only world she has ever known. Until she witnesses the impossible: a drip from the ceiling. A drip? It doesn't make sense. Yet she hears it, … Continue reading New Release Book Review: Hive by A.J. Betts
Book A Day: The Shifting Fog by Kate Morton
Day 2: The Shifting Fog I was given a Dymocks gift voucher for my birthday in the year after this novel was released. It was sitting there on display in the Dymocks top 100 section, high up in the top ten, and the atmospheric cover caught my eye. I also liked that it was written … Continue reading Book A Day: The Shifting Fog by Kate Morton
Book A Day: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Over on Facebook, I'm seeing a lot of 'book a day' posts whereby you post the cover of a book you have loved everyday for however many days it suits you. I've been thinking recently about all the books I've loved but never reviewed and how I could share these. This seems like a good … Continue reading Book A Day: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
New Release Book Review: The Last of the Bonegilla Girls by Victoria Purman
The Last of the Bonegilla Girls… About the Book: Their friendship transcends nationality and background, but can it overcome the horrors of the past? A post-Second World War story of strong female ties and family, secrets and lies, set in the multicultural Australia of the fifties. Can the Bonegilla girls defeat their past? Or … Continue reading New Release Book Review: The Last of the Bonegilla Girls by Victoria Purman
New Release Book Review: Mr Peacock’s Possessions by Lydia Syson
Mr Peacock’s Possessions… About the Book: An intimate, intense, beautifully realised novel of possession, power and loss of innocence, for fans of Mister Pip and The Poisonwood Bible. Oceania 1879. A family of settlers from New Zealand are the sole inhabitants of a remote volcanic island. For two years they have struggled with the … Continue reading New Release Book Review: Mr Peacock’s Possessions by Lydia Syson
New Release Book Review: The Kookaburra Creek Cafe by Sandie Docker
The Kookaburra Creek Cafe... About the Book: Welcome to the Kookaburra Creek Cafe. THE PAST For Hattie, the cafe has been her refuge for the last fifty years – her second chance at a happy ending after her dreams of being a star were shattered. But will the ghosts of her past succeed in destroying … Continue reading New Release Book Review: The Kookaburra Creek Cafe by Sandie Docker
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