Book Review – The Push: Mother. Daughter. Angel. Monster?
Author: Ashley Audrain – Publisher: Penguin – Blyth is standing outside looking into a house to observe the family inside. The family consists of a father, a mother and two…
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Book Review – The Wife Upstairs
Author: Rachel HawkinsPublisher: HarperCollins Jane comes from a bit of mysterious background. When she was younger, she was in foster care, with less than desirable foster parents. She has changed…
Book Review – The Midnight Library
Author: Matt HaigPublisher: Canongate Nora is depressed. We know that from the outset because the first line of the book is: “Nineteen years before she decided to die…” She feels…
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Memorial Author: Bryan WashingtonPublisher: Atlantic Reading this book takes a little getting used to. Conversations take place but there are no quotation marks (a technique used in the acclaimed book…
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Comrades! Lives of Australian Communists Edited by Bob Boughton, Danny Blackman, Mike Donaldson, Carmel Shute and Beverley Symons, SEARCH Foundation, 2020.New International Bookshop (www.nibs.org.au). Comrades! comprises stories of 100 rank…
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If I Had Your Face Author: Frances ChaPublisher: Penguin If I Had Your Face is the debut novel from Frances Cha about a group of young women who live in…
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold – Author: John le Carré – Publisher: Penguin – When John le Carré (aka David Cornwall) passed away back in December there…
Book Review – Homeland Elegies
Author: Ayad AkhtarPublisher: Tinder Press I hadn’t heard of Ayad Akhtar before reading this book. He is a screenwriter, a novelist and has written award winning plays. He was born…
Saratoga mum publishes second children’s book
Saratoga local, Melita Lovett-Sisson, has given up the corporate life to pursue her passion for writing, publishing her second children’s book on January 29.
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Wow, No Thank You Author: Samantha Irby –Publisher: Faber & Faber – “I have been stuck with a smelly, actively decaying body that I never asked for,” Irby writes, “and…
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A Room Made of Leaves Author: Kate GrenvillePublisher: Text Publishing Much is written about the officers that established the penal colony in Australia, but little is known about their wives….
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Monogamy Author: Sue MillerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing This is a story about Annie and Graham. Both had been previously married and were divorced when they met at the launch of Graham’s…
Little Eyes – Book Review
Author: Samanta Schweblin – Publisher: Oneworld – Kentukis are all the rage. “It’s a cell phone with legs.” Keepers buy these gadgets with their camera and speaker enclosed within a…
Book Review – One By One
Author: Ruth Ware –Publisher: Vintage – Snoop is an app that allows people to listen to your music, “Voyeurism for your ears,” is what the company calls it. If you…
Book Review – The Survivors
Author: Jane Harper – Publisher: Macmillan – We’ve all made mistakes and have regrets. Wish we could undo something from our past. But imagine making a mistake that lead to…
Book Review – The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Author: V.E. Schwab – Publisher: Titan Books – I was drawn to this book because I read that it was “in the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife”, which I…
Book Review – My Dark Vanessa –
Author: Kate Elizabeth Russell – Publisher: 4th Estate – Vanessa Wye is 32, single, working as a concierge at a hotel in Maine, and it is 2017. She is obsessively…
Book Review – ‘Pretty Things’
Author: Janelle Brown –Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson – Nina Ross and her mother Lily, an accomplished con artist, move around a lot. In fact, they stay put for a while,…
Book Review – Writers & Lovers
Author: Lily King – Publisher: Picador– It is the late 1990s and Casey (or is it Camila) is struggling. She is thirty-one, back in Boston, broke, living in a potting…
Book Review – The Book of Two Ways
Author: Jodi PicoultPublisher: Allen & Unwin Dawn is married to Brian and has a teenage daughter, Meret. They live in Boston. Brian is a professor of physics at Harvard and…