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
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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: Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
About the Book: WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A BARACK OBAMA BEST BOOK OF 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 2019 TIME’s #1 Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her … Continue reading Book Review: Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
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: Someone I Used to Know by Paige Toon
About the Book: So much can change in half a lifetime… ThenAt fifteen, George is the foster brother Leah never asked for. As the angry, troubled boy struggles to come to terms with his circumstances, Leah finds herself getting drawn closer to him. Theo’s wealthy family have mysteriously pulled him out of boarding school and … Continue reading Blog Tour Book Review: Someone I Used to Know by Paige Toon
Book Review: All We Dream by Pamela Cook
All We Dream… About the Book: Revised Edition of Essie’s Way A forgotten necklace. A family secret. Two women hiding from the truth. When successful Sydney lawyer Miranda McIntyre searches for something old to go with her wedding dress, she remembers an antique necklace from her childhood. Her mother’s denial of its existence only deepens … Continue reading Book Review: All We Dream by Pamela Cook
Book Review: Half Life by Jillian Cantor
Half Life… About the Book: A brilliant sliding-doors reimagining of the passionate life of the first woman to win a Nobel Prize – and the life Marie Curie might have led if she had chosen love over science. Poland, 1891. Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when … Continue reading Book Review: Half Life by Jillian Cantor
Book Review: The Breaking by Irma Gold
The Breaking… About the Book: Hannah Bird has just arrived in Thailand. Disoriented and out of her depth, she meets Deven, a fierce and gutsy Australian expat who sweeps her into thrilling adventures rescuing elephants. As they head deeper and deeper into the fraught world of elephant tourism, their lives become tangled in ways Hannah … Continue reading Book Review: The Breaking by Irma Gold
Book Review: Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding
Bright Burning Things... About the Book: Being Tommy's mother is too much for Sonya. Too much love, too much fear, too much longing for the cool wine she gulps from the bottle each night. Because Sonya is burning the fish fingers, and driving too fast, and swimming too far from the shore, and Tommy's life … Continue reading Book Review: Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding
Book Review: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Four Winds… About the Book: The Four Winds is a deeply moving, powerful story about the strength and resilience of women and the bond between mother and daughter, by the multi-million copy number one bestselling author Kristin Hannah. She will discover the best of herself in the worst of times . . . Texas, … Continue reading Book Review: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
