Title: The Last Train Author: Sue Lawrence Genre: Historical Fiction/Mystery Publisher: Allen and Unwin Published: 24th January 2018 Format: Paperback Pages: 352 Price: $29.99 Synopsis: Sue Lawrence serves up a brilliant historical mystery, meticulously researched and densely plotted, with plenty of twists and a gripping climax. At 7 p.m. on 28 December 1879, a violent… Continue reading The Last Train by Sue Lawrence
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Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva
Title: Mr. Dickens and His Carol Author: Samantha Silva Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Faber Factory Plus/Allison and Busby/Allen and Unwin Published: 22nd November 2017 Format: Hardcover Pages: 320 Price: $24.99 Synopsis: ‘A charming, comic, and ultimately poignant Christmas tale about the creation of the most famous Christmas tale ever written. It’s as foggy and haunted… Continue reading Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva
Book Bingo 2018
At the start of this year, I had decided to undertake the annual Australian Women Writer’s Challenge, and the 2018 Popsugar Reading Challenge. As I will read some books that will work for both, this shouldn’t be a massive undertaking, apart from a few categories that won’t coincide with the #AWW2018. Whilst perusing some of… Continue reading Book Bingo 2018
Wrap Up #1: 2017 Reading Challenge
2017 Reading Challenge As well as the Australian Women Writer’s Challenge, I embarked on this year, in which I read about fifty-five books, I also did another reading challenge in another group. Since last year, we have gathered on Facebook, with a list of at least twenty categories, sometimes more, to fill with at least… Continue reading Wrap Up #1: 2017 Reading Challenge
After I’ve Gone by Linda Green
Title: After I’ve Gone Author: Linda Green Genre: Thriller/Crime Publisher: Quercus/Hachette Published: 25th July 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 440 Price: $29.99 Synopsis: You have 18 months left to live . . . On a wet Monday in January, Jess Mount checks Facebook and discovers her timeline appears to have skipped forward 18 months, to a… Continue reading After I’ve Gone by Linda Green
The Book of Dust Volume One: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
Title: The Book of Dust Volume One: La Belle Sauvage Author: Philip Pullman Genre: Fantasy, YA Children’s Literature Publisher: Penguin Books/David Fickling Books Published: 19th October, 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 448 Price: $32.99 Synopsis: Philip Pullman returns to the world of His Dark Materials with this magnificent first volume of The Book of Dust. Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and… Continue reading The Book of Dust Volume One: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
Rose Raventhorpe Investigates: Rubies and Runaways (Rose Raventhorpe #2) by Janine Beacham
Title: Rose Raventhorpe Investigates: Rubies and Runaways (Rose Raventhorpe #2) Author: Janine Beacham Genre: Children/Mystery/Crime Publisher: Hachette Australia Published: 25th July 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 245 Price: $14.99 Synopsis: The Clockwork Sparrow meets Downton Abbey It's a bitterly cold winter in Yorke and Rose Raventhorpe and her butler Heddsworth are stuck with Rose's unpleasant cousin Herbert, and… Continue reading Rose Raventhorpe Investigates: Rubies and Runaways (Rose Raventhorpe #2) by Janine Beacham
Wolf Children by Paul Dowsell
Title: Wolf Children Author: Paul Dowsell Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Bloomsbury Published: 1st November 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 288 Price: $14.99 Synopsis: survival in the cellar of an abandoned hospital, Otto and his ragtag gang of kids have banded together in the desperate, bombed-out city. The war may be over, but danger lurks in the… Continue reading Wolf Children by Paul Dowsell
The Red Ribbon by Lucy Adlington
Title: The Red Ribbon Author: Lucy Addlington Genre: Historical Fiction/Young Adult Publisher: Bonnier/Hotkey/Allen and Unwin Published: 25th October 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 320 Price: $19.99 Synopsis: Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. This was Birchwood. For readers of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped… Continue reading The Red Ribbon by Lucy Adlington
Rose Raventhorpe Investigates: Black Cats and Butlers (Rose Raventhorpe #1)
Title: Rose Raventhorpe Investigates: Black Cats and Butlers Author: Janine Beacham Genre: Mystery/Crime/Children's Fiction Publisher: Little, Brown Books/Hachette Published: 28th March 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 263 Price: $14.99 Synopsis: The Clockwork Sparrow meets Downton Abbey When Rose Raventhorpe's beloved butler is found (gasp!) murdered in the hallway of her own house, she's determined to uncover the culprit.… Continue reading Rose Raventhorpe Investigates: Black Cats and Butlers (Rose Raventhorpe #1)
