Author: Laura Prescott Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Genre: Historical Fiction Year of Release: 2019 Release date September 17th, 2019 Rating 🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the…
Author: Meredith Jaffe Publisher: HarperCollins Australia Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction Year of release: 2021 Release Date: 5TH May 2021 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis Derek’s daughter Debbie is getting married. He’s desperate to be there, but he’s banged up in Yarrandarrah Correctional Centre for embezzling funds from the golf club, and, thanks to his ex-wife, Lorraine,…
Title: The Music of Bees Author: Eileen Garvin Publisher: Hachette Australia Genre: General Fiction Year of release: 2021 Release Date: 11th of May 2021 Rating Synopsis After the sudden death of her husband, Alice Holtzman finds herself a social outsider. Reclusive, middle-aged, childless, and with only 850,000 honeybees for company. On the other side…
Author: Emily M. Danforth Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Genre: Horror & Paranormal Fiction, General Fiction Year of release: 2021 Release Date 7th April 2021 Rating Synopsis ‘It’s a terrible story and one way to tell it is this: two girls in love and a fog of wasps cursed the place forever after…’1902, Brookhants School for…
Author: Steven Carroll Publisher: Harper Collins Australia Genre: Modern, Historical Fiction, General Fiction, Adventure Year of Release: 2021 Release Date 3rd February 2021 Rating Synopsis Occupied France, 1943. France’s most shameful hour. In these dark times, Dominique starts an illicit affair with a distinguished publisher, a married man. He introduces her to the Resistance, and…
Author: Claire Christian Publisher: The Text Publishing Company Genre: General Fiction Year of Release: 2020 Release Date: 29th September 2020 Rating 🌟🌟🌟 Disclaimer: This review contains coarse Language Synopsis A quirky, feel-good romantic comedy about creating the life you want. Noni didn’t expect to be starting over again at the age of thirty-six. But eighteen…
Author: Rachel Joyce Publisher: Random House UK Genre: Contemporary, Modern, Fiction, Adventure, Romance Year of release: 2015 Release Date: August 3rd, 2015 Rating Trigger Warning: Terminal Illness, Anxiety, Depression, Suicide, and Death Synopsis When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do…
Title: The Emporium of Imagination Author: Tabitha Bird Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction Year of Release 2021 Release Date: 30th March 2021 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis Welcome to The Emporium of Imagination, a most unusual shop that travels the world offering vintage gifts to repair broken dreams and extraordinary phones…
Author Rachel Joyce Publisher: Random House UK Genre: Modern &Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction Year of Release: 2013 Release Date: January 2013 Rating🌟🌟🌟🌟 Trigger Warning Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief Synopsis “When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk…
Author Meg Bignell Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction, Humour Year of Release: 2019 Release Date 15th April 2019 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Trigger Warning Suicide, Grief SynopsisSusannah Parks – wife, mother, cleaner of surfaces and runner of household – is a viola virtuoso. Except she hasn’t picked up a viola for…
