The Entrance based entrepreneur, Julie Watson, is one of many contributors that have written chapters for Lake Macquarie based author Joanne Martin’s bestseller book, Innovation Secrets. The book, which became…
Author: Karin Slaughter – Publisher: Harper Collins – Callie is fourteen and babysits for Trevor since Trevor’s parents, Buddy and Linda, are busy working. Callie’s older sister, Leigh, previously babysat…
Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz –Publisher: Faber & Faber – All Jacob Finch Bonner ever wanted to do is write. To be a great writer! His father, a tax attorney suggested…
Author: Lisa Genova – Publisher: Simon and Schuster – Do you forget why you walked into a room? Do you forget names? Do you forget where you put your glasses?…
Author: Alexandra Andrews –Publisher: Hachette – Florence Darrow grew up in Florida but she has “escaped” and moved to New York City to try to become a writer. She works…
I was surprised when I found out that Nomadland was a book. Last year there was so much talk about the movie, especially as it won Academy awards for best…
Author: Laurie Frankel – Publisher: Henry Holt and Company – Nora gives birth to triplets, Mab, Monday and Mirabel. As each one is born another syllable is added to the…
I am not a fan of short stories … they always leave me unsatisfied. Just when I feel I am getting a grasp on the characters, the story ends and…
Author: Katherine HeinyPublisher: 4th Estate Sometimes you just want to read a book that will help you escape for a little while. One that isn’t going to set the world…
Author: Gabriela Garcia – Publisher: Flatiron Books – Of Women and Salt is about five generations of women, dating back to 1866 Cuba and ending in present day Florida. We…
Author: Gina Wilkinson –Publisher: Hachette – Huda and Rania were friends when they were younger. They made a blood oath to have no secrets. The punishment to breaking the oath…
Author: Rachel Marks – Publisher: Penguin – Anger management classes meet Saturdays at noon. Alfie’s Dad, Jake, is going there because something happened with another parent at the school and…
Author: Sarah PearsePublisher: Bantam Press If someone tells you that they have book for you to read, set in a hotel in the Alps during winter, just run away –…
Author: Janet Skeslien CharlesPublisher: Two Roads As you can guess from the title, the story is about a library in Paris, however it is about the American Library in Paris…
Author: Michele HarperPublisher: Riverhead Books The introduction of The Beauty in Breaking has a lovely paragraph describing Kintsukoroi, which is a Japanese art of repairing the cracks of broken pottery…
Author: Graeme NortonPublisher: Coronet This is the third novel by Graeme Norton – yes that Graeme Norton, I didn’t know that he was an author either. And besides fiction, he…
Author: Kristin HannahPublisher: Macmillan Elsa Wolcott, grew up with health problems and as such was confined to her room with books being her only friends. She was not as attractive…
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…
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…
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…