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
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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
Book Review: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
About the Book: It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the … Continue reading Book Review: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Book Review: A Place Called Here by Cecelia Ahern
About the Book: A redemptive and captivating novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of PS. I Love You.Ever wondered where lost things go? Ever since the day her classmate vanished, Sandy Shortt has been haunted by what happens when something – or someone – disappears. Finding has become her goal. Jack Ruttle is desperate … Continue reading Book Review: A Place Called Here by Cecelia Ahern
Book Review: The Lipstick Bureau by Michelle Gable
About the Book: 1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotná is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy’s capital. One of the OSS’s few female operatives abroad and multilingual, she’s tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing propaganda to lower the morale of enemy soldiers. Despite limited resources, Niki and … Continue reading Book Review: The Lipstick Bureau by Michelle Gable
Book Review: Home Before Night by J.P. Pomare
About the Book: Mother's intuition or a deadly guilty conscience? A woman races against time to find her son in this tense and twisty thriller by the Top Ten bestselling author of The Wrong Woman. As the third wave of the virus hits, all inhabitants of Melbourne are given until 8 pm to get to their homes. … Continue reading Book Review: Home Before Night by J.P. Pomare
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