• Stella and Margie

    Author: Glenna Thomson  Publisher: Penguin books Australia  Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction  Year of release: 2018 Release Date: 2/02/18 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 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. Stella has exciting dreams for the…

  • The Book of Doors

    Author: Gareth Brown  Publisher: Penguin Books Australia  Genre: Fantasy, Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Magical Realism. Year of release: 2024 Release Date: 13 February 2024  Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis  Because some doors should never be opened. New York bookseller Cassie Andrews is not sure what she’s doing with her life. She lives quietly, sharing an apartment with her…

  • The Girl From Moscow

    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…

  • Ted Watts Diary

    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…

  • 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…

  • Unfinished Woman

    Author: Robyn Davidson  Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing  Genre: Biographies, General Biographies, Non-Fiction  Year of release: 2023 Release Date: 03/10/23 TW Suicide Synopsis  In 1977, twenty-seven-year-old Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea.  A life of almost constant travelling followed. From the deserts of…

  • When One of Us Hurts

    Author: Monica Vuu  Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia  Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Crime & Mystery, Thriller, Suspense. Year of release: 2023 Release date: 27/06/23 Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 TW Death of an infant, incest, death, pet death, drug use.  Synopsis  ‘When one of us hurts, we all hurt…’ Port Brighton hates outsiders. The small coastal town has its own…

  • The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard

    Author: Natasha Lester Publisher: Hachette Australia  Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Mystery  Year of release: 2023 Release Date: 27/09/23 Rating 🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis In November 1973, a fashion legend vanished, leaving behind only a white silk dress and the question: what really happened to Astrid Bricard? Paris, 1917: Parentless sixteen-year-old Mizza Bricard makes a vow:…

  • The Benevolent Society of Ill-mannered Ladies #1

    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…

  • The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone

    Author: Audrey Burges Publisher: Pan Macmillan  Genre: Fantasy, General Fiction, Modern & Contemporary  Year of release: 2023 Release Date 28/02/23 AUS RPP $34.99 Rating 🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis Once upon a time, there was a house . . .  From her attic in the Arizona mountains, thirty-four-year-old recluse Myra Malone blogs about a miniature mansion – a dolls’…