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Summary An online bookclub has been meeting for over ten years, but they have never met face to face. Until now… Adele invites members of her book club to the Blue Mountains, where she is house sitting. Each member has been asked to bring a book that will teach the other members more about her. […]

Summary This novel, set in 1949, introduces a new character, Archer, a WW11 veteran who has recently been released from prison, where he served time for a crime he didn’t commit. On his release, he encounters many obstacles that make it difficult to honour his parole conditions. His good intentions to stay out of trouble […]

The Blogging from A to Z April Challenge is for bloggers who wish to participate by publishing a blog post every day in April except for Sundays. Each blog post will focus on a letter of the alphabet. For example April 1 will be A, April 2 will be B and on it goes. By […]

Summary An online bookclub has been meeting for over ten years, but they have never met face to face. Until now… Adele invites members of her book club to the Blue Mountains, where she is house sitting. Each member has been asked to bring a book that will teach the other members more about her. […]

Can you imagine my surprise and excitement when I opened the email that told me that this blog has been nominated for the Fifth Annual Bloggers Bash Awards in the category of Best Book Blog? I was really shocked and couldn’t believe it that a reader saw enough merit in my new book blog, to […]

Summary On a very hot night in the summer of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, age 13 is woken by knocking at his bedroom window.  He finds Jasper Jones there, trying to wake him. Jasper is an outcast in the town. He is a bit rebellious, a loner and of mixed race.  But when Jasper asks him […]

I have been looking forward to the Bendigo Writers Festival held recently on Aug 9, 10 and 11, since attending last year. This year was the 8th festival, and as expected, was bigger and better than ever. In the words of the organisers – “Festival 2019 – our eighth – was a brilliant success, with […]

The Blogging from A to Z April Challenge  is for bloggers who wish to participate by publishing a blog post every day in April except for Sundays. Each blog post will focus on a letter of the alphabet. For example April 1 will be A, April 2 will be B and on it goes. By […]

I came across WWW Wednesdays through a book bloggers link up, and was immediately interested in the premise. The blog was Taking on a World of Words . The idea of WWW Wednesday is to publish a post answering three questions. Those questions are:  What are you currently reading?   What did you recently finish […]

SUMMARY Luke Ellis is abducted from his bed in the middle of a night, and his parents are murdered. The super intelligent twelve year old with special powers is spirited away in a black SUV. When he wakes, Luke is in a room, at The Institute, hidden deep in the forest at Maine. The room […]

Summary A memoir of love, despair and re-invention Alannah Hill, one of Australia’s most successful fashion designers, created an international fashion brand that defied trends with ornamental, sophisticated elegance, beads, bows and vintage florals.  But growing up in a milk bar in Tasmania, Alannah’s childhood was one of hardship, fear and abuse.  At an early […]

Summary American President Harrison Tucker has been caught out in a scandal, and the media is  all over it, sending shockwaves through his Presidential Campaign. It is probable that the will lose everything that he has worked for, unless his wife, Grace Tucker, the First Lady, stands by his side, and shows her support. For […]

Damnation never tasted so sweet……. When Rosemund Tomkins was born, in London in the 17th Century, the midwives believed she was so unusual with her very dark eyes and strange laughter, that they thought she would live a charmed life. But her unfortunate life could never be described as being charmed. After living a life […]

The Blogging from A to Z April Challenge  is for bloggers who wish to participate by publishing a blog post every day in April except for Sundays. Each blog post will focus on a letter of the alphabet. For example April 1 will be A, April 2 will be B and on it goes. By […]