All posts tagged "Novel"
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Midnight Girls, by Alicia Jasinska
YA FANTASY: In a snow-cloaked kingdom, two wicked rivals secretly compete for the pure heart of a prince, only to discover they might be falling for each other.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Iron Widow, by Xiran Jay Zhao
YA FANTASY: When Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, her plan is to assassinate the man responsible for her sister's death. But on emerging from the cockpit unscathed after her first battle, she plans to overturn the entire patriarchal military system.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Viral, by Robin Cook
THRILLER: A family’s exposure to a rare yet deadly virus puts them at the centre of a terrifying new danger to mankind – and pulls back the curtain on a health care system powered by greed and corruption.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Nightmare Alley, by William Lindsay Gresham
NOIR: A cool, cruel, rediscovered classic of American noir, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Guillermo del Toro.
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923Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Dark Hours, by Michael Connelly
THRILLER: LAPD Detective Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to find justice in this new thriller from No. 1 bestselling author Michael Connelly.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Brimstone, by Russel Hutchings
THRILLER: John Devereaux, an SAS Warrant Officer, is seconded to the Australian Secret Intelligence Service and handed a mission that will test him to his very core--both professionally and personally.
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982Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Dust Never Settles, by Karina Lickorish Quinn
LITERARY FICTION: A hauntingly beautiful debut for fans of Isabel Allende and Kazuo Ishiguro.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Game On, by Janet Evanovich
MYSTERY: Stephanie Plum returns to hunt down a master cyber-criminal operating out of Trenton in the 28th book in the wildly popular series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Prince of the Skies, by Antonio Iturbe
HISTORICAL FICTION: From the bestselling author of The Librarian of Auschwitz comes another epic historical novel translated by Lilit Žekulin Thwaites and based on a true story – the extraordinary life and mysterious death of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince.
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856Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Passage of Conquest, by T.D. Kuchel
FANTASY: During an evening, promising adventure aboard a galleon, 18-year-old Giselle is marooned on a tropical island. As she begins to uncover remnants of an ancient civilisation, she learns that she has travelled to a parallel world.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Paper Palace, by Miranda Cowley Heller
LITERARY FICTION: A magnificent literary debut about the myriad loves that make up a life.
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924Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Right Way To Rock by Nat Amoore
YOUNG ADULT: The rockin' story of two new friends, one arts fiasco and a whole lot of music.
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614Books & LiteratureBook Review: A Voice in the Night, by Sarah Hawthorn
THRILLER: An addictive thriller of twists and turns, a gripping and emotionally resonant debut from a striking new voice.
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611Books & LiteratureBook Review: Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Sally Rooney
LITERARY FICTION: Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.
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778Books & LiteratureBook Review: We Were Never Here, by Andrea Bartz
THRILLER: Your best friend killed a man. Now she needs your help. But can you really trust her motives? Her Last Holiday meets Thelma and Louise.
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950Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Raven Heir, by Stephanie Burgis
MIDDLE-GRADE: Three triplets who live in the centre of the forest with their sorceress mother don't know that one of them is heir to the Raven Throne.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The What on Earth Institute of Wonder, by Lisa Nicol
MIDDLE GRADE: A mind-boggling expedition into the secrets of the Animal Kingdom with only an invisible map of the human heart as a guide. (Unless, of course, you count the talking parrot.) What on Earth could possibly go wrong…?
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Shaman, by Roland Perry
THRILLER: Victor Cavalier has received the phone call every parent dreads: his daughter is lying in a coma after a motorcycle accident and given little chance of survival. But when a mysterious scientist known as the Shaman intervenes to save his daughter's life, Victor decides he must meet this maverick genius.
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615Books & LiteratureBook Review: Kissing Emma, by Shappi Khorsandi
YA: From widely acclaimed comedian and author, Shappi Khorsandi, comes a modern fable about the rise and fall of a beautiful, but vulnerable, young woman in a world obsessed with money, status and looks.
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987Books & LiteratureBook Review: Lakesedge, by Lyndall Clipstone
YOUNG ADULT: When Violeta Graceling arrives at haunted Lakesedge estate, she expects to find a monster. She knows the terrifying rumours about Rowan Sylvanan, who drowned his entire family when he was a boy. But neither the estate nor the monster are what they seem.
