About the Book: Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht - the night their family loses everything. As her child's safety seems ever harder to guarantee, Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing … Continue reading Book Review: The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
Month: Jun 2023
Book Review: The Broken Places by Russell Franklin
About the Book: An eye-opening, compassionate and moving debut novel inspired by the life of Hemingway's favourite child, who has often been misrepresented and misunderstood. In 1931, Gregory Hemingway's life begins in Kansas City, Missouri. The third and favourite child of an overbearing father, Greg is a paragon: a star athlete, a crack shot, bright … Continue reading Book Review: The Broken Places by Russell Franklin
Book Review: The Secret Life of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
About the Book: 1939: Fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated from London to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the Aberdeen family in a charming stone cottage, Hazel distracts her young sister with a fairy tale about a magical land, a secret place they can escape … Continue reading Book Review: The Secret Life of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
Book Review: Scrublands by Chris Hammer
About the Book: Set in a fictional Riverina town at the height of a devastating drought, Scrublands is one of the most powerful, compelling and original crime novels to be written in Australia. Winner of the 2019 CWA Dagger New Blood Award for Best First Crime Novel. In an isolated country town brought to its knees by … Continue reading Book Review: Scrublands by Chris Hammer
Book Review: Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police – A Cold War Escape by Stejarel Olaru
Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth About the Book: Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the 1976 Montreal … Continue reading Book Review: Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police – A Cold War Escape by Stejarel Olaru
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