I’ve always been fascinated by the royal family, so ‘Lady in Waiting My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner,’ jumped out at me as I went wandering through the library isles. Not least because the front cover photo is Anne...
[caption id="attachment_2709" align="alignnone" width="197"] Book review Your own kind of girl by Claire Bowditch[/caption] Claire Bowditch’s book Your Own Kind of Girl made me laugh and cry. It is very honest and quite raw in its writing. It would have been challenging to write it, to...
I took to Fran and her vintage wedding gown shop, The Whispering Dress, the minute I saw The Perfect Dress on BorrowBox. I was looking for a light read and I found Francesca Delany, who travels the country with her faithful assistant Mick searching for...
Refuge by A V Mathers The cover of Refuge didn't bode well for me. A crow, dark sinister foreboding doors, and a fox and everything dark, dark, dark. Refuge is a young-adult novel, and it's fantasy fiction, neither of which is my usual genre or cup of...
Marion Pauw's novel $26.75 buy it here on Booktopia "There's not much difference between transporting a prisoner and moving a load of hogs." Straight away I was in. Jail, prison, crime committed, what will that crime be? Whose lives will be changed? [caption id="attachment_2425" align="alignleft" width="300"] Girl in...
My head in a book….a review of Chalk Man The Chalk Man by C J Tudor Crime & Thriller Penguin Books recommended retail price $19.99 AUD “They lifted up her head, dusted off a few leaves that clung to the ragged edges of her neck, and placed it carefully...
A book written by Kate Holden. I started reading it and then I wanted to put it down almost immediately. And I did. [caption id="attachment_1051" align="alignleft" width="225"] Kate Holden's maiden book[/caption] Kate Holden’s In my skin a memoir is her first book. Published in 2005 it’s not a...
Complex, dysfunctional family relationships, conflict, guilt, betrayal, lies, regret and tragedy Hannah Richell’s books have it all. They are ‘sneak into the toilet to read five more pages’ while hubby changes the baby kind of books. Having read Hannah’s first novel Secrets of Tides and loved...