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: 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
Book Review: Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
About the Book: Olivia McAfee and Ava Campanello have each had a change of life forced upon them. Olivia never dreamed that after her messy divorce she would find herself back in her sleepy New Hampshire home town, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Ava is … Continue reading Book Review: Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
Book Review: Hooked: A Never After Novel by Emily McIntire
About the Book: Once Upon A Time, there was a little boy. His belly full of laughter, his life full of joy. Until one day, something changed; stripped his innocence away. The hole inside making space for the devil to come and play. His dreams gone forever, he grew up way too fast. An endless … Continue reading Book Review: Hooked: A Never After Novel by Emily McIntire
Book Review: The Only Child by Kayte Nunn
About the Book: A decades-old crime threatens to tear apart three generations of women in this unputdownable mystery that will keep you gripped until its last heart-wrenching page. 1949 It is the coldest winter Orcades Island has ever known, when a pregnant sixteen-year-old arrives at Fairmile, a home for 'fallen women' run by the Catholic Church. … Continue reading Book Review: The Only Child by Kayte Nunn
Book Review: All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
About the Book: There were a dozen witnesses to Denny Tran’s brutal murder in a busy Sydney restaurant. So how come no one saw anything? ‘Just let him go.’ Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny … Continue reading Book Review: All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
Book Review: Someone Else’s Child by Kylie Orr
About the Book: A gripping contemporary novel from a magnificent new talent that tackles the almost unbreakable loyalty of female friendships, the generosity of community and the lengths we will go to save a child. Ren will do anything for her best friend, Anna. The news that Anna's daughter Charlotte has terminal brain cancer sends … Continue reading Book Review: Someone Else’s Child by Kylie Orr
Book Review: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
About the Book: ‘And then there is a scream. Ragged and terrified. A beat of silence even after it stops, until we all seem to realise that the Reading Room Rules no longer apply.’ Hannah Tigone, bestselling Australian crime author, is crafting a new novel that begins in the Boston Public Library: four strangers; Winifred, … Continue reading Book Review: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
Book Review: The Caretakers by Amanda Bestor-Siegal
About the Book: In the smart Parisian suburb of Maisons-Larue, in the wake of the Paris 2015 terrorist attacks, an au pair is arrested after the sudden and suspicious death of her nine-year-old charge... The truth behind what happened is unravelled through six women: Geraldine, a heartbroken French teacher who struggles to connect with her … Continue reading Book Review: The Caretakers by Amanda Bestor-Siegal
Book Review: When We Fall by Aoife Clifford
About the Book: In the wild, coastal town of Merritt, Alex Tillerson and her mother make a shocking find on the beach. The police claim it’s an accidental death but there are whispers of murder and that it is not the first. Bella Greggs was found dead at the bottom of a ravine but drowned … Continue reading Book Review: When We Fall by Aoife Clifford
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