A fast paced, multi layered page turner, VIOLET KELLY AND THE JADE OWL by Fiona Britton is divided into thirty one chapters. It is of medium size and thickness.
It is set in Sydney during the 1930’s, just before the …
Based on a true life story this is a turbulent, gripping novel of an unexpected relationship. The author, Emma Donoghue is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Booker Prize …
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A gripping, at times disturbing novel, hard to believe it is a debut work by Kerryn Mayne. Divided into fifty five short chapters and set in a small town in Victoria in the Dandenongs, it is compelling and …
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Mark Twain, aka Samuel Clemens, turned his signature wit to a number of subjects–boyhood, the legend of King Arthur and even cats. “If man could be crossed with the cat,” he once wrote, “it would improve man, but …
Hooray! This is the latest, most exciting book by Kerry Greenwood, the twenty second in the series, chronicling the beautiful, sleek, sophisticated, brave, tempestuous and sometimes possibly scandalous adventures of Phryne Fisher in Melbourne during the 1920’s.
The book is …
Can you forget committing a murder?
This is a gripping, compulsive page turner of a book with unexpected twists. It is the third in the Detective Harbinder Kaur series, divided into forty seven chapters and a prologue and epilogue.
In …
Maggie O’Farrell’s latest book is totally captivating and enthralling, magnificently written, and brings Lucrezia de’ Medici d’Este (1545-1561) vividly to life.
Inspired by Robert Browning’s poem ‘ My Last Duchess’ and the Bronzino portrait, Lucrezia’s short, rather obscure and brief …
This is a breathlessly written, compelling page turner of a spy thriller by Stella Rimington, ex head of MI5. The latest in a number of books she has written, this is the first in a series about Manon Tyler. It …
Set in Paris in 2015 and 2016 , this excellent book by Amanda Bestor-Siegal opens grittily like a sudden TV news alert with the mysterious death of a nine year old French boy, Julien. The family’s American au pair Alena …
A sad story about love, loss, regret, guilt, a long strained marriage, what it takes to be a writer and the fluidity of time and memories. This is all blended in with a ghostly tale …
This excellently written …