July 30, 2020
Book reviews with Torquay Books, July 2020
Enid by Robert Wainwright Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. The girl from Strathfield in Sydney stopped traffic in...
June 25, 2020
Book reviews with Torquay Books, June 25
Rootbound: Rewilding a Life by Alice Vincent From Telegraph’s gardening columnist and founder of Noughticulture, Rootbound explores how a whole new generation are discovering the power...
July 24, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: MEMORY CRAFT by Lynne Kelly
In her bestselling book The Memory Code, Lynne Kelly uncovers the memory methods of the ancients. She has now tested them thoroughly and in Memory...
July 24, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: BIG SKY – A JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL by Kate Atkinson
Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside town, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at...
June 27, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: LAND OF FENCES by Mark Smith
Finn and Kas are surviving on the coast – more than surviving: they’re enjoying the surf, the summer and being together. And now, the lights...
June 27, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE by Lori Gottleib
As a therapist, Lori knows a lot about pain, about the ways in which pain is tied to loss, and how change and loss...
May 29, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: A BOY AND HIS DOG AT THE END OF THE WORLD by C. A. Fletcher
My name’s Griz. I’ve never been to school, I’ve never had friends, in my whole life I’ve not met enough people to play a...
May 29, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: MASTER OF MY FATE by Sienna Brown
William Buchanan lived an extraordinary life - born a slave on a plantation in Jamaica, he escaped the gallows more than once, took part in...
April 24, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: FLED by Meg Keneally
Highway robber. Convict. Runaway. Mother. She will do anything for freedom, but at what cost? Jenny Trelawney is no ordinary thief. Forced by poverty to live...
April 24, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: THE TIGER CATCHER by Paullina Simons
Can true love ever die? The first novel in a beautiful, heartbreaking new trilogy from Paullina Simons, the international bestselling author of Tully and...
March 28, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: THE VAN APFEL GIRLS ARE GONE by Felicity McLean
A compulsive, note-perfect debut for fans of The Virgin Suicides and Picnic at Hanging Rock. “We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip...
March 28, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: THE RIP by Mark Brandi
The new novel from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Wimmera. An urban crime novel that slowly and masterfully hooks you in... then shocks with...
February 28, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: WHEN THE WAR IS OVER by Jackie French, Illustrated by Anne Spudvilas
From one of Australia’s most-loved authors comes a book about homecomings, and the enduring power of love. Now the war is over And they say the...
February 28, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: SLEEP TIGHT, PLATYPUP by Renee Treml
Poor little Platypup is frightened of the dark. What is that shadow? Who made that noise? But there’s nothing to fear. With his mother by...
January 31, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: THE BINDING by Bridget Collins
The Binding is a beautiful homage to the allure and life-changing power of books. Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange...
January 31, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: RED MOON by Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Moon is written by multi-award winning author Kim Stanley Robinson, who has authored more than 20 books. His work is often described as...
December 26, 2018
BOOK REVIEW: THE HELPLINE by Katherine Collette
An eccentric woman who is great with numbers - but not so great with people - realises it’s up to her to pull a...
December 26, 2018
BOOK REVIEW: THE AU PAIR by Emma Rous
A tautly plotted mystery of dark family secrets, perfect for fans of Kate Morton. Seraphine Mayes and her brother Danny are known as the summerborn...
November 22, 2018
BOOK REVIEW: SPEAKING UP by Gillian Triggs
As president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs advocated for the disempowered, the disenfranchised, the marginalised. She withstood relentless political pressure and media...
November 22, 2018
BOOK REVIEW: THE ARSONIST by Chloe Hooper
The Arsonist takes readers inside the hunt for a fire-lighter. After Black Saturday, a February 2009 day marked by 47-degree heat and firestorms, arson...
September 26, 2018
Book Review: Greenlight By Benjamin Stevenson
Four years ago, in the small town of Birravale, Eliza Dacey was murdered. Within hours, her killer was caught. Or was he? Curtis Wade was...
September 26, 2018
Book Review: Transcription By Kate Atkinson
London, 1940. Juliet Armstrong is an 18-year-old with an interesting job - transcribing the conversations of a fascist group that has been infiltrated by MI5. She...
August 29, 2018
Book Review: Scrublands By Chris Hammer
Riversend is a hot, dry, godforsaken country town, home to Australia’s worst mass murder. One year ago, a charming and well-loved priest mysteriously opened fire...
August 29, 2018
Book Review: Boy Swallows Universe By Trent Dalton
Award winning journalist Trent Dalton has written a novel from the heart, full of compassion, forgiveness, strangeness, violence and justice. Eli Bell doesn’t come from...
