
Reviewing Books for SMSA
We would like to invite all SMSA members to submit book reviews for inclusion on our website. Book reviews are a great way to let…
We would like to invite all SMSA members to submit book reviews for inclusion on our website. Book reviews are a great way to let…
These are the short and concise reviews left by members when they return books to the library. They provide quick feedback on their reading experience….
Rogers has flown under my radar for the last 10 years, but he is definitely on my radar now! Rogers writing style is so engrossing…
Mr Baldacci is well known for writing stories and characters in sets of four, five or even six instalments if there is sufficient material to…
As someone born and raised in Melbourne, this reader was immediately drawn to this novel’s promise of a story set in 1863, in the heart…
Dominic Amerena has spun the most exquisite tale, full of Australian culture that most people will recognise. There is also plenty of black humour within…
This little book is a memoir of Hemingway that takes us to Paris in the 1920s, where he lived for around five years with his…
As I read this book I could hear Dr Swan’s calming Scottish brogue. I feel forever grateful for his voice of reason during the COVID…
We sadly lost Kerry Greenwood recently, and as I have read many Phryne Fisher mysteries, I thought I would explore her other series about Corinna…
The determinately unmarried Lady Augusta Colebrook (Gus to her nearest and dearest) and her twin sister Julia live in a time where women are barely…
It has taken me over thirty years to finally read this novel which was a bestseller in the 1980s. I must confess I was put-off…
I am always excited to find a new (to me) Australian author whose writing is stylish and clever. The Grapevine, new and Australian, is an…