July 25, 2018
Book Review: The Nowhere Child By Christian White
Kim Leamy is an Australian photography teacher based in Melbourne. Kim has just learnt she is actually Sammy Went, a two-year-old who went missing from...
July 25, 2018
Book Review: Clock Dance By Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler returns with another ‘slice of life’ novel. Willa Drake’s life has always been dictated to her by circumstances out of her control; her...
June 20, 2018
Book Review: Calypso By David Sedaris
David Sedaris entertains in this book with stories about his family, his friends, but mostly himself. The opening story is perhaps the funniest. Having organised a...
June 20, 2018
Book Review: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen By Alison Weir
The third stunning novel in the Six Tudor Queens series by foremost and beloved historian Alison Weir. Eleven days after the death of Anne Boleyn,...
May 30, 2018
Book Review: Burning Fields By Alli Sinclair
It’s 1948 and the world is reeling from the devastation of World War II. In the Australian Women’s Army Service, women have been doing...
May 30, 2018
Book Review: Eggshell Skull By Bril Lee
Bri Lee has spent her life surrounded by the Australian legal system; first as the daughter of a policeman, then as a law student,...
April 25, 2018
Book Review: The Bookshop Of The Broken Hearted By Robert Hillman
Robert Hillman has written a beautiful book which would be enjoyed by many types of reader. The reader is swept up into the lives...
April 25, 2018
Book Review: The Death Of Noah Glass By Gail Jones
When art historian Noah Glass is found dead in a neighbour’s swimming pool, his two adult children, Martin and Evie, are devastated. Allegations by...
March 28, 2018
Book Review: The Ruin By Dervla McTiernan
Irish Detective Cormac Reilly could never quite forget the death of Hilaria Blake, or more to the point, the two children she left behind;...
March 28, 2018
Book Review: The Sealwoman’s Gift By Sally Magnusson
In 1627, Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted at least 400 people. Among the captives sold into slavery in Algiers were...
February 22, 2018
Book Review: The Rules of Backyard Croquet by Sunni Overend
Last year staff at Torquay Books adored Overend’s debut The Dangers of Truffle Hunting and dubbed it “Bridget Jones meets Nigella Lawson”. She returns...
February 22, 2018
Book Review: The Cage by Lloyd Jones
The Cage, a new book by the author of the bestseller Mister Pip, is a work of fiction that presents the reader with questions...
January 26, 2018
Book Review: The Immortalists By Chloe Benjamin
New York, 1969: four siblings go to a fortune teller to learn the day of their deaths. The knowledge they take home with them that...
January 26, 2018
Book Review: The Woman in the Window By A.J. Finn
It’s been 10 long months since Anna Fox last left her home; 10 months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old...
December 29, 2017
Book Review: The Rules Of Magic By Alice Hoffman
It’s mid-twentieth century, New York and the Owens siblings, Fran, Jet and Vincent are grappling with usual teenage woes, however, a summer visit to...
December 29, 2017
Book Review: The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye By David Lagercrantz
Book Five in the “Millennium” series. Salander is sentenced to two months in Flodberga women’s prison for saving a young boy’s life by any...
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