About the Book: Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim. At 11pm she sends her mum a text message. At 4.30am Kim awakens to discover that Tallulah has not come home Friends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a … Continue reading Blog Tour Book Review: The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
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Book Review: A Strange and Brilliant Light by Eli Lee
About the Book: A riveting, thought-provoking speculative literary novel exploring the impact of the AI revolution through the eyes of three very different young women. Lal, Janetta and Rose are living in a time of flux. Technological advance has brought huge financial rewards to those with power, but large swathes of the population are losing … Continue reading Book Review: A Strange and Brilliant Light by Eli Lee
Book Review: The Women’s Circle by Karyn Sepulveda
About the Book: Sydney, present day. Anna is released into the world after eight years in prison. The entirety of her possessions stuffed into a single plastic bag. The trauma of her past, a much heavier burden to carry. Feeling hopeless, isolated and deeply lonely, Anna attends an alternative support group; The Women’s Circle. But … Continue reading Book Review: The Women’s Circle by Karyn Sepulveda
Book Review: The Good Wife of Bath A (Mostly) True Story by Karen Brooks
About the Book: In the middle ages, a poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to tell her own version? Who would you believe? England, The Year of Our Lord, 1364 When married off aged 12 to an … Continue reading Book Review: The Good Wife of Bath A (Mostly) True Story by Karen Brooks
Book Review: Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal
About the Book: It is 1865 and in a coastal village in southern England, Nell picks violets for a living. Set apart from her community because of the birthmarks that pepper her skin, Nell keeps her head down and her sights small: her world is her beloved brother and devotion to the sea. Then, Jasper … Continue reading Book Review: Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal
Book Review: The Husbands by Chandler Baker
About the Book: Welcome to the neighbourhood. We do things differently here. Recently, Nora has started to feel that 'having it all' - a family, a soon-to-be new house, a successful career in law - comes with a price, one her husband doesn't seem to be paying quite so heavily. She loves Hayden, but why … Continue reading Book Review: The Husbands by Chandler Baker
Behind the Pen with Katherine Brabon
I am delighted to welcome Katherine Brabon to Behind the Pen today, here to chat about her newly released novel, The Shut Ins. How would you describe this novel if you could only use 5 words? Loneliness and desire in Japan. What prompted you to write The Shut Ins? For me, a book or story … Continue reading Behind the Pen with Katherine Brabon
Book Review: The Other Side of Beautiful by Kim Lock
About the Book: Meet Mercy Blain, whose house has just burnt down. Unfortunately for Mercy, this goes beyond the disaster it would be for most people: she hasn't been outside that house for two years now. Flung out into the world she's been studiously ignoring, Mercy goes to the only place she can. Her not-quite-ex-husband … Continue reading Book Review: The Other Side of Beautiful by Kim Lock
Blog Tour Book Review: Catch Us The Foxes by Nicola West
About the Book: Ambitious young journalist Marlowe ‘Lo’ Robertson would do anything to escape the suffocating confines of her small home town. While begrudgingly covering the annual show for the local newspaper, Lo is horrified to discover the mutilated corpse of her best friend – the town's reigning showgirl, Lily Williams. Seven strange symbols have … Continue reading Blog Tour Book Review: Catch Us The Foxes by Nicola West
Blog Tour Book Review: The Eighth Wonder by Tania Farrelly
About the Book: New York, 1897. The richest city in the world. Beautiful, young and privileged, Rose Kingsbury Smith is expected to play by the strict rules of social etiquette, to forfeit all career aspirations and to marry a man of good means. But she has a quietly rebellious streak and is determined to make … Continue reading Blog Tour Book Review: The Eighth Wonder by Tania Farrelly
