It's bit like listmania around here at the moment! Even though 2019 is not over, when I consider the amount of days left against my immediate tbr pile, I can safely call this challenge a wrap at 72 books. My goal was 80, so not quite there this year, but close enough for me to … Continue reading #aww2019 Wrap Up
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Book Review: Remembering Bob by Sue Pieters-Hawke
Remembering Bob... About the Book: A warm, moving and revealing collection of stories and memories about Bob Hawke from across the nation, edited by his eldest daughter Bob Hawke's death in May 2019 sparked national mourning across the country as we remembered just how important Bob had been in the shaping of modern Australia. In … Continue reading Book Review: Remembering Bob by Sue Pieters-Hawke
Book Review: Cry of the Firebird by T.M. Clark
Cry of the Firebird... About the Book: In the badlands of Africa, a resourceful doctor fights to save her patients' lives. Australian thriller writer T.M. Clark returns with a vivid, action-packed adventure in the tradition of Wilbur Smith. South African-born Doctor Lily Winters, a consultant with the World Health Organization, has been in the thick … Continue reading Book Review: Cry of the Firebird by T.M. Clark
Book Review: The Christmas Witch by Carla Caruso
The Christmas Witch... About the Book: Misfiring spells. A gorgeous new boss. Looks like this Christmas will be magic... The festive season isn't Mina Rosso's favourite time of year. It reminds her that as a descendant of La Befana - Italy's Christmas witch - she's cursed to forever be unlucky in love... Her plan this … Continue reading Book Review: The Christmas Witch by Carla Caruso
#BlogTour: Josephine’s Garden by Stephanie Parkyn
Josephine’s Garden... About the Book: A captivating story of love, nature and identity in Napoleon's France France, 1794. In the aftermath of the bloody end to the French Revolution, Rose de Beauharnais stumbles from prison on the day she is to be guillotined. Within a decade, she'll transform into the scandalous socialite who marries Napoleon … Continue reading #BlogTour: Josephine’s Garden by Stephanie Parkyn
Book Review: The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
The Weekend... About the Book: The brilliant new novel from Charlotte Wood, acclaimed author of The Natural Way of Things. Four older women have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, frank and steadfast. But when Sylvie dies, the ground shifts dangerously for the remaining three. Can they survive together without her? They … Continue reading Book Review: The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
Book Review: Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
Your Own Kind of Girl... About the Book: ARIA Award-winning singer and actress Clare Bowditch confronts her inner critic in this no-holds-barred memoir. This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and well enough - to write. Clare Bowditch has always had a knack for … Continue reading Book Review: Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
#BookBingo – Round 23
Book written by an Australian woman more than 10 years ago: I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes by Jaclyn Moriarty Lent to me by a friend at work, I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes was a novel I hadn’t even heard of. But I read Gravity is The Thing earlier this … Continue reading #BookBingo – Round 23
Book Review: There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
There Was Still Love... About the Book: A tender and masterfully told story of memory, family and love. Prague, 1938: Eva flies down the street from her sister. Suddenly a man steps out, a man wearing a hat. Eva runs into him, hits the pavement hard. His hat is in the gutter. His anger slaps … Continue reading Book Review: There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
Challenge Check In – October
Another month over, time for another challenge check in. I thought this month might be more of a quiet one, and it is, I'm down a bit on my overall reading total, but still pleasantly surprised by how many books I did actually get around to reading. Challenge stats: #aww2019: 4 books Book Bingo with … Continue reading Challenge Check In – October
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