May Life: This weekend I'm attending my first session at a writer's festival. Writers By the Sea is a biennial festival in Yeppoon and I missed the last one due to a migraine. M and I have tickets to the Saturday evening event, with Michael Robotham and Chris Hammer, also featuring a slam poet who … Continue reading The Month That Was…
Month: May 2023
Book Review: Exiles by Jane Harper
About the Book: At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing into the crowds. A year on, Kim Gillespie's absence casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather deep in the heart of South Australian wine country to welcome a … Continue reading Book Review: Exiles by Jane Harper
Book Review: The Albatross by Nina Wan
About the Book: 'The albatross is just about the rarest thing in golf - two shots on a par 5. A hole-in-one, anywhere on the course, is just a random event, a fluke. It's not your own doing. But an albatross . . . It's a thing of beauty. One. Two. It must be very … Continue reading Book Review: The Albatross by Nina Wan
Book Review: Happy Place by Emily Henry
About the Book: Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Every year for the past decade, they have left behind their lives to drink far too much wine and soak up the sea air with their favourite people in … Continue reading Book Review: Happy Place by Emily Henry
Book Review: Only Love Can Hurt Like This by Paige Toon
About the Book: Neither of them expected to fall in love. But sometimes life has other plans. When Wren realises her fiancé is in love with someone else, she thinks her heart will never recover. On the other side of the world, Anders lost his wife four years ago and is still struggling to move … Continue reading Book Review: Only Love Can Hurt Like This by Paige Toon
Book Review: The Fire and the Rose by Robyn Cadwallader
About the Book: England, 1276: Forced to leave her home village, Eleanor moves to Lincoln to work as a housemaid. She's prickly, independent and stubborn, her prospects blighted by a port-wine birthmark across her face. Unusually for a woman, she has fine skills with ink and quill, and harbours a secret ambition to work as … Continue reading Book Review: The Fire and the Rose by Robyn Cadwallader
Book Review: Search History by Amy Taylor
About the Book: Rebecca meets Fleabag in a sharp and funny debut novel about dating in the internet age. After fleeing to Melbourne in the wake of a breakup, all Ana has to show for herself is an unfulfilling job at an overly enthusiastic tech start-up and one particularly questionable dating app experience. Then she meets Evan. Charming, … Continue reading Book Review: Search History by Amy Taylor
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