Author: Kate Quinn Genre: Historical, Fiction, Adventure, Fiction Modern Fiction, Wartime. Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Year of release: 2021 Release Date 03/08/21 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 TW Death of a Child, Sexual Assault, Some Physical Mental Abuse. Reviewers note Bletchley Park is written as BP throughout this review. Synopsis 1940, Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire. Three very different women are recruited to…
Author: Sophie Green Publisher: Hachette Australia Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Fiction Year of release: 2024 Release date 29/07/24 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis Mornington Peninsula, 1999. Wife and now Grandmother Joan has checked into the grand old Duchess Hotel to find herself again after thirty-five years of being who her husband and family have wanted her to be. Peninsula local…
Author: Julia Levitina Publisher: Pantera Press Genre: Historical Fiction Year of release: 2024 Release date: 27/02/24. Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟 TW physical Assault threats to safety, government corruption, Kidnapping, mentions of abortion. Synopsis 1983, MoscowTwenty-one-year-old Ella dreams of stardom and playing Natasha Rostova in War and Peace at the Moscow Theatre Academy. One day when meeting her friend…
Author: Steve Matthews Publisher: Big Sky Publishing Genre: Historical Fiction, History, Wars Year of Release: 2023 Release Date: 04/10/23 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 TW sexual assault, Suicide Synopsis Ted Watts’ Diary is a coming-of-age love story. An orphaned seven-year-old English boy arrives in Sydney to be adopted by his ne’er-do-well Aunt during the early 1900s. The story…
Author: Alison Goodman Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, General Fiction, Historical Romance, Modern Romance. Year of Release: 2023 Release Date: 7th June 2023 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis Welcome to the secret life of the Colebrook twins: unnoticed old maids to most, but unseen champions to those in need – society be damned. Lady Augusta…
Author: Victoria Purman Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Genre: Historical Fiction, General Fiction Year of Release: 2023 Release Date: 05/04/23 Rating Synopsis The astonishingly rich prize of the 1956 Australian Women’s Weekly cookery competition offers two women the possibility of a new kind of future, in this compassionate look at the extraordinary lives of ordinary women – our mothers…
Title: The Nurses’ War Author: Victoria Purman Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Genre: Modern, Crime, Historical Fiction, General Fiction Release Date: 30th March 2022 Rating Synopsis In 1915, as World War 1 rages in Europe and the number of dead and injured continues to grow, Australian nurse, Sister Cora Barker, leaves her home in Australia for England, determined…
Title: Secrets and Showgirls Author: Catherine McCullagh Publisher: Big Sky Publishing Genre: Historical Fiction, Fiction, WW2 Release Date: 16th February 2021 Rating 🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis Le Prix d’Amour, a vibrant Paris cabaret, is caught in the crossfire of the occupation. Everyone is being watched, and some of Le Prix’s colourful performers are hiding dangerous secrets. Monsieur Maurice…
Author: Fiona McIntosh Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Genre: Historical Fiction, General Fiction, Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Romance Year of Release: 2022 Release Date: 5th October 2022 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 TW Death of children, Descriptions of death. Synopsis Orphan Fleur Appleby is adopted by a loving undertaker and his wife, and she quickly develops a special gift for helping…
Author: Steve Matthews Publisher: Big Sky Publishing, Distributor Simon & Schuster Genre: Historical Fiction, General Fiction, Wartime, Fiction Year of release: 2022 Release Date 10th October 2022 Rating Trigger Warning Rape, descriptive torture, Suicide, descriptive death Book 3 of 3 this series should be read in order Review The Nazi’s goal to achieve world domination has…
