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
Category: history
Blog Tour #1: Review of The Botanist’s Daughter by Kayte Nunn
Title: The Botanist's Daughter Author: Kayte Nunn Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Hachette Australia Published: 31st July 2018 Format: Paperback Pages: 388 Price: $29.99 Synopsis: Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondrously imagined tale of two female botanists, separated by more than a century, in a race to discover a life-saving flower . . . In Victorian England,… Continue reading Blog Tour #1: Review of The Botanist’s Daughter by Kayte Nunn
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
Title: The Psychology of Time Travel Author: Kate Mascarenhas Genre: Science Fiction/Crime Publisher: HarperCollins Australia/Head of Zeus Published: 1st August 2018 Format: Paperback Pages: 368 Price: $29.99 Synopsis: A time travel murder mystery, set in a female-centric alternate world. A time travel murder mystery from a brilliantly original new voice. Perfect for readers of Naomi… Continue reading The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
The Honourable Thief by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
Title: The Honourable Thief Author: Meaghan Wilson Anastasios Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery Publisher: Pan MacMillan Published: 31/7/2018 Format: Paperback Pages: 448 Price: $32.99 Synopsis: 'Achilles? Because...?' 'Obsession of mine. Half man, half god - and his own worst enemy. My kind of man.' He laughed. Istanbul, Turkey 1955 Benedict Hitchens, once a world-renowned archaeologist, is… Continue reading The Honourable Thief by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
Book Bingo fifteen – A Book Set More Than 100 Years Ago
Kate Forsyth's Chain of Charms series has been sitting on my shelf for a few years. Between university up until eighteen months ago, reviewing for publishers and most recently, writing quizzes for Scholastic Australia, I've been trying to squeeze them in, and have found time lately, so that's what I have done. A book set… Continue reading Book Bingo fifteen – A Book Set More Than 100 Years Ago
The Mitford Murders (Mitford Murders #1) by Jessica Fellowes
Title: The Mitford Murders (Mitford Murders #1) Author: Jessica Fellowes Genre: Historical Fiction/Mystery Publisher: Sphere Published: 12th September 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 422 Price: $19.99 Synopsis: A Golden Age-style mystery bursting with period detail and set amid the Mitford household, THE MITFORD MURDERS is the glittering start to a thrilling and sumptuous new series written by Jessica Fellowes,… Continue reading The Mitford Murders (Mitford Murders #1) by Jessica Fellowes
The Butterfly in Amber (Chain of Charms #6) by Kate Forsyth
Title: The Butterfly in Amber (Chain of Charms #6) Author: Kate Forsyth Genre: Historical Fiction/Children's Fiction Publisher: Pan MacMillan Published: Format: 1st July 2008 Pages: 266 Price: $9.99 Synopsis: Life is always hard for the gypsies, who live to their own rhythm and their own rules, but since Oliver Cromwell had seized control of England,… Continue reading The Butterfly in Amber (Chain of Charms #6) by Kate Forsyth
The Lightning Bolt (Chain of Charms #5) by Kate Forsyth
Title: The Lightning Bolt (Chain of Charms #5) Author: Kate Forsyth Genre: Historical Fiction, Children's Literature Publisher: Pan MacMillan Published: 10th November 2007/1st September 2008 Format: Paperback Pages: 220 Price: $9.99 Synopsis: The final three paperbacks of the award-winning six-book series by Kate Forsyth. Life is always hard for the gypsies, who live to their… Continue reading The Lightning Bolt (Chain of Charms #5) by Kate Forsyth
The Desert Nurse by Pamela Hart
Title: The Desert Nurse Author: Pamela Hart Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Hachette Australia Published: 10th July 2018 Format: Paperback Pages: 410 Price: $29.99 Synopsis: Amid the Australian Army hospitals of World War I Egypt, two deeply determined individuals find the resilience of their love tested to its limits It's 1911, and 21-year-old Evelyn Northey desperately… Continue reading The Desert Nurse by Pamela Hart
The Cat’s Eye Shell (Chain of Charms #4) by Kate Forsyth
Title: The Cat's Eye Shell (Chain of Charms #4) Author: Kate Forsyth Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Pan Macmillan Published: 11th November 2007/1st September 2008 Format: Paperback Pages: 245 Price: $9.99 Synopsis: The fourth exciting book in the six-book series by bestselling author, Kate Forsyth. Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist… Continue reading The Cat’s Eye Shell (Chain of Charms #4) by Kate Forsyth
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