Love And Other Battles – Tess Woods ‘Emotional, compelling’ ‘Compulsively readable’ ‘Utterly unputdownable’ ‘A must-read for all fiction lovers’ … 1969: Free-spirited hippie Jess James has no intention of falling for a soldier … but perhaps some things are not in our power to stop. 1989: Jess’s daughter, Jamie, dreams Read more…
Daisy Jones and the Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now. Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking Read more…
The Lost Girls of Paris – Pam Jenoff 1946, Manhattan. Grace Healey is rebuilding her life after losing her husband during the war. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, she finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own Read more…
Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya Read more…
The Calculating Stars – Mary Robinette Kowal (2018) A meteor decimates the U.S. government and paves the way for a climate cataclysm that will eventually render the earth inhospitable to humanity. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated timeline in the earth’s efforts to colonize space, as well as Read more…
The Legacy of Beauregarde – Rosa Fedele (2018) ‘You could lose someone down there, couldn’t you? Anyone could get buried under the concrete slab, and no one would even know!’ The Beauregarde women have lived in the shadow of The Seminary for four generations. And there is nothing conventional about Read more…
The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern (2011) The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is Read more…
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid (2018) How could I not give this one a try?? With its shining 5 star reviews on Goodreads and Amazon, and almost every single one of my friends rating it 5 stars, I had to see what all the fuss Read more…
Whitsunday Dawn – Annie Seaton (2018) Release date – 23rd July, 2018 Annie Seaton is one of my favourite Australian authors. It’s not just because she used to teach at my high school and is a lovely lady, but her books are wonderful! Really well written and meticulously researched. I Read more…
The Summer that Melted Everything – Tiffany McDaniel This was a GREAT read! It totally caught me off guard how absolutely unique and fabulous this book was. In the summer of 1984, Fielding’s father Autopsy Bliss wrote an invitation to the devil in the newspaper. And the devil accepted. Or did Read more…