Book Review – When the Apricots Bloom
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…
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Book Review – Saturdays at Noon
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…
Book Review – The Sanatorium
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 –…
Book Review – The Paris Library
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…
Book Review – The Beauty in Breaking
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…
Book Review – Home Stretch
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…
Electricity for Beginners is being distributed in many countries
When Trevor Wrightson, 87, of Wyee Point retired as electrical foreman at Vales Point Power Station, he turned his hand to writing books and is now a globally recognised author….
Book Review – The Four Winds
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…
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…
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…