General Fiction

  • The Name of the Sister

    Author: Gail Jones  Publisher: Text Publishing  Genre: Australian, Crime, Fiction  Year of release: 2025 Release date 03/06/25 Rating 🌟🌟🌟 TW Kidnapping, forced imprisonment, trauma, loss, grief, death of a domestic pet, missing persons  teen suicide Death.  Synopsis  A young woman stumbles onto an outback road at night and is lit up in the headlights of an approaching…

  • Painting Portraits of Everyone i’ve Ever Dated

    Author: Joseph Earp  Genre: General Fiction  Publisher: Pantera Press  Year of release: 2025 Release date: 29 /04/25 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis A wry, tender and funny debut novel about art and love – and how the act of seeing lies at the heart of both. All Ellie Robertson has wanted to be since childhood is a painter: after all, that’s…

  • An Onslaught of Light

    Author: Natasha Rai  Publisher: Pantera Press  Genre: General Fiction  Year of release: 2025 Release date: 04/03/25 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 TW Suicidal ideation, suicide, Systemic Racism, Physical abuse, mental illness depression grief Synopsis A luminous, beautifully observed novel about the people we once were, and the people we can become – if only we’re brave enough to try….

  • Tom Lake

    Author: Ann Patchett  Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing  Genre: General Fiction, Modern & Contemporary Fiction Year of release: 2023 Release date: 03/10/23  Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis  In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous…

  • Terms of Inheritance

    Author: Michelle Upton  Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers  Genre: General Fiction, Modern Romance  Year of release: 2022 Release Date: 30 /11/22 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis  Four sisters. A vast fortune. And a mother who thinks she knows best … Where there’s a will, there’s a way. A funny, moving, brilliantly observed story about letting go of the past. When multi-millionaire Jacki…

  • The Love Of My Life

    Author: Rosie Walsh  Publisher: Pan Macmillan  Genre: Mystery & Thriller, General Fiction, Modern Romance  Year of Release: 2022  Release Date: 22nd February 2022 Rating 🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis  I have held you every night for ten years and I didn’t even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you? Emma loves her…

  • It Happened One Summer

    Title: It Happened One Summer Author: Tessa Baily Publishers: Harper Collins Australia Genre: General Fiction, Modern Romance Year of release: 2021 Release Date: 27th October 2021 Rating 🌟🌟🌟 (Bellinger Sisters #1) Reviewers Note: Coarse Language, Strong Sexual Content  Synopsis Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly…

  • Stella & Margie

    Author: Glenna Thomson  Publisher: Penguin Books Australia  Genre: General Fiction  Year of Release: 2018 Release Date: 2nd January 2018 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 TW Death of a child, Domestic Violence Synopsis  Stella and her mother-in-law Margie are two very different women. Stella is kind, compassionate and just a little chaotic. Margie is prickly, demanding and a stickler for convention….

  • Hamnet

    Author: Maggie O’ Farrell Publisher: Hachette Australia Genre: Modern & Contemporary, General Fiction Year of release: 2021 Release Date: 13th April 2021 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody…