All posts tagged "fiction"
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Children’s House, by Alice Nelson
Outside the house one day Marina encounters Constance, a young refugee from Rwanda, and her toddler, Gabriel. Unmoored and devastated, they quickly come to depend on her.
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2.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Scared to Death, by Anthony Horowitz
A collection of gruesome and sometimes-funny horror stories for teens, written by the man who now writes the new James Bond and Sherlock Holmes stories. Not for the faint-hearted.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Bus on Thursday, by Shirley Barrett
A horror/comedy about Eleanor who is presented with the opportunity to teach at a school at the foot of the Snowy Mountains where the previous teacher is missing and the town friar believes Eleanor needs an exorcism.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Bobby Shafter, by John Standingford
They say it takes a village to raise a child. How many characters does it take to bring two people together, when they are separated by age, class and education?
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966Books & 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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1.2KBooks & 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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1.2KBooks & 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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1.3KBooks & 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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1.5KBooks & 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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1.6KBooks & 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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839Books & 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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3.0KBooks & 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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1.6KBooks & 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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1.1KBooks & 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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986Books & 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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1.8KBooks & 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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853Books & 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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1.0KBooks & 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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859Books & 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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1.1KBooks & 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.
