All posts tagged "Book"
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz62Books & LiteratureBook Review: Falling, by T.J. Newman
THRILLER: A terrorist kidnaps pilot Bill Hoffman's wife and children and then gives him a choice: crash his commercial flight killing 143 people, or watch his family die.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz147Books & LiteratureBook Review: Avoiding the Ageing Parent Trap, by Brian Herd
NON-FICTION: Informative and insightful, this is the essential family guide to preparing for ageing parents.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz144Books & LiteratureBook Review: This Is Not a Love Song, by Amber Petty
MEMOIR: A memoir about mental health and love that intertwines the raw, personal soul-searching of a young woman with a ‘stranger-than-fiction’ psychological thriller.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz131Books & LiteratureBook Review: Vernacular Visions, by Noris Ioannou
ART: A folklife history of Australia: art, diversity, storytelling.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz111Books & LiteratureBook Review: Little Gem and the Mysterious Letters, by Anna Zobel
JUNIOR FICTION: An adorable and charming new story about everyone's favourite witch Little Gem.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz176Books & LiteratureBook Review: Secrets My Father Kept, by Rachel Givney
HISTORICAL FICTION: Set in Poland on the brink of the Second World War, this is the gripping story of a young woman determined to uncover the truth behind her mother’s disappearance and the dark secret from her father's past.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz244Books & LiteratureBook Review: Acknowledgments, by Becky Lucas
COMEDY: A funny, consoling and very candid collection of stories and essays about friends, enemies and figuring it out.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz118Books & LiteratureBook Review: Broken Rules and Other Stories, by Barry Lee Thompson
SHORT STORIES: A collection of interlinked stories that vividly capture the small, rarely spoken moments of our lives that reverberate with meaning, with darkness and with light.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz274Books & LiteratureBook Review: Call Me Frank, by Rebecca Watson
PICTURE BOOK: School is terribly lonely for a shy boy named Francis Frank. Before climbing into bed one night, he wishes for a friend to play with. During a dream, Francis Frank meets his imaginary friend, Charles Charlie.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz100Books & LiteratureBook Review: Edge of the Grave, by Robbie Morrison
HISTORICAL FICTION: When Charles Geddes, son-in-law of one of Glasgow's wealthiest shipbuilders, is found floating in the River Clyde with his throat cut, his beautiful widow Isla Lockhart asks for Inspector James Dreghorn to lead the murder case.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz104Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Hiding Place, by Jenny Quintana
THRILLER: When Marina moves into 24 Harrington Gardens, she has an ulterior motive--to uncover the truth about her past.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz138Books & LiteratureBook Review: Trick of the Light, by Fiona McCallum
CONTEMPORARY FICTION: Erica, newly widowed, is devastated to discover her venture capitalist husband left their finances in ruins. Determined to save her home while protecting her teenage daughters, she vows to get back on her feet without letting them, or anyone else, know the truth.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz186Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Miracle Pill, by Peter Walker
NON-FICTION: Peter Walker explores how to bring more movement into the modern world and, most importantly, into your life.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz122Books & LiteratureBook Review: Sunburnt Veils, by Sara Haghdoosti
YOUNG ADULT: Girl meets boy, ghosts his text messages, then convinces him to help her run for the student union. Just your typical love story with a hijabi twist.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz139Books & LiteratureBook Review: Some Achieve Greatness by John Bell
NON-FICTION: Some Achieve Greatness contains invaluable lessons on leadership, drawn from John Bell’s extensive relationship with Shakespeare and his own experience as a cultural leader.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz131Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Summer Job, by Lizzy Dent
ROMANCE: Can Birdy carry off a summer pretending to be her best friend (who incidentally is a world-class wine expert)? And can she stop herself from falling for the first man she's ever actually liked (but who thinks she's someone else)?
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz210Books & LiteratureBook Review: Let’s Build a House, by Mike Lucas, illustrated by Daron Parton
PICTURE BOOK: A step-by-step look at how a house is constructed by real-life engineer Mike Lucas and gorgeously illustrated by Daron Parton.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz143Books & LiteratureBook Review: Circus of Wonders, by Elizabeth Macneal
HISTORICAL FICTION: A novel with a vivid, brilliant cast of characters and themes of creativity and ownership, beauty and power, success and crashing failure, and the Victorian obsession with spectacle.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz142Books & LiteratureBook Review: Half Life, by Jillian Cantor
FICTION: A brilliant sliding-doors reimagining of the passionate life of the first woman to win a Nobel Prize – and the life Marie Curie might have led if she had chosen love over science.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz160Books & LiteratureBook Review: Beyond Alice, by Tanya Heaslip
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: From the happiness and freedom of her bush childhood, Tanya Heaslip is sent to a boarding school sixteen hundred kilometres away. As these years pass surrounded by the friends she makes, Tanya's memoir is a humorous and inspiring story of strength, resilience and the realities of Australian outback life.
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