The Banksia Bay Beach Shack... About the Book: A year is a long time in the memory of a small town. Stories get twisted, truths become warped, history is rewritten. MYSTERIES When Laura discovers an old photo of her grandmother, Lillian, with an intriguing inscription on the back, she heads to the sleepy seaside town … Continue reading Book Review: The Banksia Bay Beach Shack by Sandie Docker
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Book Review: My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
My Dark Vanessa… About the Book: An era-defining novel about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacher. ALL HE DID WAS FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AND THE WORLD TURNED HIM INTO A MONSTER. Vanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first had sex with her English teacher. She is now thirty-two and in … Continue reading Book Review: My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Book Review: Truths I Never Told You by Kelly Rimmer
Truths I Never Told You… About the Book: It begins with the discovery of a tattered letter in the attic ... A heart-tugging story of family secrets by the Top 10 bestselling Australian author 1959: Grace is a young mother with four children under four. All she ever wanted was to have a family of … Continue reading Book Review: Truths I Never Told You by Kelly Rimmer
Book Review: Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
Wolfe Island… About the Book: Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation... Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept herself to herself - with only the company … Continue reading Book Review: Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
Book Review: The Mothers by Genevieve Gannon
The Mothers... About the Book: What if you gave birth to someone else's child? A gripping family drama inspired by a real-life case of an IVF laboratory mix-up. Two couples. One baby. An unimaginable choice. Grace and Dan Arden are in their forties and have been on the IVF treadmill since the day they got … Continue reading Book Review: The Mothers by Genevieve Gannon
Book Review: Greenwood by Michael Christie
Greenwood... About the Book: 2038. On a remote island off the Pacific coast of British Columbia stands the Greenwood Arboreal Cathedral, one of the world’s last forests. Wealthy tourists flock from all corners of the dust-choked globe to see the spectacle and remember what once was. But even as they breathe in the fresh air … Continue reading Book Review: Greenwood by Michael Christie
Book Review: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
American Dirt... About the Book: The unforgettable story of a mother and son fleeing a drug-cartel to cross the US-Mexico border. 'I couldn't put it down. I'll never stop thinking about it' Ann Patchett 'One hell of a novel about a good woman on the run with her beautiful boy' Stephen King FEAR KEEPS THEM … Continue reading Book Review: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
#BRPreview Book Review: My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
My Dark Vanessa... About the Book: An era-defining novel about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacher. ALL HE DID WAS FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AND THE WORLD TURNED HIM INTO A MONSTER. Vanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first had sex with her English teacher. She is now thirty-two and in … Continue reading #BRPreview Book Review: My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Book Review: The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
The Secrets We Kept... About the Book: Sold in twenty-five countries and poised to become a global literary sensation, Lara Prescott's dazzling first novel about the women in the CIA's typing pool and the fate of Boris Pasternak's banned masterpiece is a sweeping page turner and the most hotly anticipated debut of the year. The … Continue reading Book Review: The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
Book Review: Cross My Heart by Pamela Cook
Cross My Heart… About the Book: When a promise kept means a life is broke… Tessa De Santis’s child-free marriage in inner-city Sydney is ordered and comfortable, and she likes it that way. When tragedy strikes and her childhood friend Skye Whittaker dies, Tess is bound to honour a promise to become foster-mother to Skye’s … Continue reading Book Review: Cross My Heart by Pamela Cook
