• Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society 

    Author: Sophie Green  Publisher: Hachette Australia  Genre: Fiction, Modern & Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction  Year of release: 2023 Release Date: 26/07/23 Rating Synopsis  Noosa Heads, 1987: Newly divorced Cynthia has returned to her hometown from Los Angeles to reconnect with her 19-year-old daughter, who is pregnant and determined not to listen to her mother’s advice. Cynthia’s former best…

  • The Other Side of Her

    Author: B.M. Carroll  Publisher: Affirm  Genre: Mystery & Thriller  Year of release: 2023 Release date: 26/04/23  Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis  A missing backpacker A million-dollar rewardOrdinary people cracking under pressure. Busy parents Mia and Ryan were devastated when their former nanny, Irish backpacker Tara, tragically disappeared. But that was two years ago. Now they want to move on…

  • A Woman’s Work

    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…

  • The Nurse’s War

    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…

  • Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance

    Author: Kate Solly  Publisher: Affirm Press  Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction  Year of release: 2022 Release Date 27th December 2022  Rating 🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis  A heart-warming story of friendship in an imperfect world, this is binge-worthy, feel-good fiction at its best. Meredith established the Copeton Crochet Collective (no knitters please) because it would be like having friends, only…

  • 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 Favour

    Title: The Favour  Author: Nicci French Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia  Genre: Mystery & Thriller, General Fiction, Modern Romance, Suspense, Crime  Year of release: 2023 Release Date: 31/01/23  Rating:  Synopsis  A good deedCan turn deadly… When Liam unexpectedly turns up in Jude’s life after ten years of no contact, asking her for a favour, she…

  • Secrets and showgirls

    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…

  • The Orphans

    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…

  • Hitler’s Resurrection

    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…