All posts tagged "fiction"
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817Books & LiteratureBook Review: Wild Imaginings, by Catherine Rayner
Catherine Rayner, a life member of the Brontë Society, has combined facts with imagined incidents and dialogue to produce a detailed picture of the childhoods of the famous Brontës.
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995Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Thief of Light, by Bernard Schaffer
An ambitious young cop suspects there's more to random, horrific murders in her small town and stumbles upon the first known a serial killer whose M.O. is constantly changing . . .
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985Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: The Diary of River Song Series 4, by Big Finish
Professor River Song meet a race known as the Discordia - time-travelling bandits with little regard to the laws of time. Looking like demons, they go around changing history to suit their needs and it seems as though River is the only one who notices. Things only get worse when one of them develops a crush on her.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Book of Ordinary People, by Claire Varley
The lives of five ordinary people living in Melbourne as they ponder how they got to this point in their lives and how they struggle to improve their situation.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: No Turning Back, by Sam Blake
Tragedy strikes a town when two university students meet an untimely end on the same fateful night, one from a hit-and-run and the other from an apparent suicide.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Beneath the Mother Tree, by D M Cameron
A spine-chilling mystery and contemporary love story played out in a unique and wild Australian setting, interweaving Indigenous history and Irish mythology.
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699Books & LiteratureBook Review: Baby Teeth, by Zoje Stage
Hanna is her father’s pride and joy who can do no wrong, and she wants to make sure that it stays that way. There is only one problem: Mummy stands in the way.
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2.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Julian is a Mermaid, by Jessica Love
When young Julian sees three beautiful women with flowing hair, he imagines them to be mermaids and wants to be just like them. A picture book about imagination and identity for ages 4+.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureA Landmark New LGBTQIA+ short story collection set for 2019
Walker Books Australia has announced a ground-breaking collection of Young Adult (YA) short stories by LGBTQIA+ Australian authors.
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941Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Honey Farm, by Harriet Alida Lye
An isolated honey farm is offer as an artists’ colony with free board and ‘life experience’ in exchange for a summer of hard labour but the idyllic summer is soon plagued by ominous events.
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849Books & LiteratureBook Review: Sword of Rhiannon Book 2: War of the Gypsy, by Melissa E Beckwith
The second book of this fantasy series begins where the first ended, with Rhiannon in training to be Empress of Ventra and working at establishing herself as an authority figure.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Sisters’ Song, by Louise Allan
The enchanting lives of sisters Ida and Nora Parker. Ida was born to be a wonderful mother and Nora was born to sing but somewhere, somehow, they received the life that the other should have had.
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679Books & LiteratureBook Review: Sword of Rhiannon Book 1: Tree of Bone and Mist, by Melissa E Beckwith
Book 1 of the Sword of Rhiannon series introduces Rhiannon, a young woman ripped from a modern Montana ranch and thrust into a medieval-style world where good and evil are literally fighting for ownership of the world.
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874Books & LiteratureBook Review: Don’t Wake Up, by Liz Lawler
Dr Alex Taylor wakes up on an operating table and is threatened by an unknown man. When she reawakens later, no one believes her story.
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715Books & LiteratureBook Review: Pimp in the Pulpit Part II, by Thomas Leslie McRae
The further misadventures of Lillian McBride and her vicious family members who anticipate the worst of each other and act accordingly.
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970Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Last Train, by Sue Lawrence
In 1879 Scotland, Ann Craig watches as her husband's train crosses the Tay Bridge just as it collapses. In 2015, Fiona Craig wakes to find that her husband has emptied their bank account and disappeared. Both are driven to search for their missing husbands.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Dr Who: Tales From New Earth, by Big Finish
Set on the fictional world of New Earth (which first appeared in the early days of David Tennant’s Doctor), the planet comes under threat by a group known as the Lux.
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961Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: The Diary of River Song Series 3, by Big Finish
Popular Dr Who character River Song returns for a third series of audio adventures featuring the fourth Doctor, played by Peter Davidson, and the villainous Madame Kovarian.
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1.7KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: The Martian Invasion Of Earth, by Big Finish
A full-cast audio adaptation of HG Wells' most well-known novel, The War of the Worlds, unfolding an alien invasion of Earth in Victorian times.
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700Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Stakes, by Ben Sanders
NYPD robbery detective Miles Keller thinks he's found a good strategy: rip off rich New York criminals and then retire early, before word's out about his true identity, but someone wants revenge.
