To make sure I manage to fit in the rest of the card evenly, this is one of a few posts that will have multiple squares marked off - progress has been a little slower, so some squares might have books from earlier in the year, but in different categories to the first card. First… Continue reading Book Bingo 19: A Memoir and a book by someone under thirty.
Category: Covers
The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle
Title: The Dinner List Author: Rebecca Serle Genre: Fiction Publisher: Allen and Unwin Published: 29th August 2018 Format: Paperback Pages: 304 Price: $29.99 Synopsis:If you could invite anyone at all to a fantasy dinner party, who would be on your list? 'We've been waiting for an hour.' That's what Audrey says. She states it with… Continue reading The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle
Amazing Australian Women: Twelve Women Who Shaped History by Pamela Freeman and Sophie Beer
Title: Amazing Australian Women: Twelve Women Who Shaped History Author: Pamela Freeman and Sophie Beer Genre: Children's Non-Fiction Publisher: Hachette/Lothian Published: 28th August 2018 Format: Hardback Pages: 32 Price: $26.99 Synopsis: A bright and colourful look at twelve incredible Australian women who helped shape our country, from politics and the arts to Indigenous culture, science… Continue reading Amazing Australian Women: Twelve Women Who Shaped History by Pamela Freeman and Sophie Beer
Australian Women Writer’s Challenge Check-in One – books one to fifteen
All year I have been meaning to write progress posts for every month, or every ten books. Until now, I have woefully neglected this activity, and having read 61 books already, am breaking it up into posts of fifteen - and will continue to do this until the end of the year/early 2019, making the… Continue reading Australian Women Writer’s Challenge Check-in One – books one to fifteen
Harry Potter – Diagon Alley: A Movie Scrapbook by Warner Bros with Jody Revenson
Title: Harry Potter - Diagon Alley: A Movie Scrapbook Author: Warner Bros with Jody Revenson Genre: Film Guide, Harry Potter, Children's, Fantasy Publisher: Bloomsbury Published: 5th July 2018 Format: Hardback Pages: 48 Price: $27.99 Synopsis:Diagon Alley is a cobblestoned shopping area for wizards and witches, and it was Harry Potter's first introduction to the wizarding… Continue reading Harry Potter – Diagon Alley: A Movie Scrapbook by Warner Bros with Jody Revenson
If Kisses Cured Cancer by T.S. Hawken
Title: If Kisses Cured Cancer Author: T.S. Hawken Genre: Literary Fiction, Fiction Publisher: Seahawk Press Published: 1st May 2018 Format: Paperback Pages: 466 Price: $30 Synopsis:If Kisses Cured Cancer is a story about life in a growing coastal town, falling in love and stealing shopping trolleys. Matt Pearce is depressed, working an uninspiring job and… Continue reading If Kisses Cured Cancer by T.S. Hawken
Cover Reveal: The Crimes of Grindelwald Screenplay
Releasing on the 16th of November, 2018, is the screenplay of the second part in the Fantastic Beasts series, The Crimes of Grindelwald,which will pick up where the first film left off two years ago, with the capture of Gellert Grindelwald by Newt Scamander and the MACUSA squad. However, Gellert has escaped and is on… Continue reading Cover Reveal: The Crimes of Grindelwald Screenplay
Book bingo nine – a book of short stories, and an award-winning book.
This week, I'm knocking off two more squares, leaving me with two more before I embark on a second card for the second half of the year - which will include new reads and some previous reads from this year that had several categories to fit into, but I ended up choosing one. In this… Continue reading Book bingo nine – a book of short stories, and an award-winning book.
Australia Day by Melanie Cheng
Title: Australia Day Author: Melanie Cheng Genre: Short stories, Fiction Publisher: Text Publishing Published: 3rd July 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 272 Price: $29.95 Synopsis: Australia Day is a collection of stories by debut author Melanie Cheng. The people she writes about are young, old, rich, poor, married, widowed, Chinese, Lebanese, Christian, Muslim. What they have in… Continue reading Australia Day by Melanie Cheng
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Author: Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Genre: Literary Fiction/Historical Fiction Publisher: Allen and Unwin Published: Movie tie-in published 21st March 2018 Format: Paperback Pages: 280 Price: $22.99 Synopsis:A celebration of literature, love, and the power of the human spirit, this warm, funny, tender, and thoroughly entertaining… Continue reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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