The House That Joy Built by Holly Ringland
Holly Ringland is the author of two of my favourite books: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding. It…
Book Reviews
Violet Kelly and the Jade Owl by Fiona Britton
What an absolute delight this book is! It’s a fabulous romp through 1930s Sydney, in the company of our feisty and indomitable Violet Kelly and…
First Blood (D.I. Kim Stone #1) by Angela Marsons
This book is in fact a prequel to a long running series. I haven’t read any of the other books, so it was a perfect…
2023 Year In Review: SMSA’s Top 10 Books
Have you managed to read all of SMSA’s most popular books? Discover our Top 10 most borrowed titles for 2023, in our Year in Review…
2023 Year In Review: SMSA’s Top 10 Mysteries
Mystery & Crime lovers abound at SMSA, so we have highlighted the top books from that genre this year. Which have you read? We hope…
2023 Year In Review: Award Winners
Discover the year’s best books and award winners for 2021, focusing on the major literary and crime writing awards.
A Few Right Thinking Men (Rowland Sinclair #1) by Sulari Gentill
A gem of Australian crime fiction, this novel is the first in a series by Australian author Ms. Gentill. Set in Sydney 1931, we are…
Vega Jane and the Secrets of Sorcery (Vega Jane #1) by David Baldacci
It isn’t unusual for a well-known author to write for the Young Adult audience (i.e., Garry Disher, Robert Galbraith) so for that reason I read…
All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness
An immensely readable trilogy, to be found in the Science Fiction part of the Library, the books are in order A Discovery of Witches, Shadow…
From a Far and Lovely Country (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #24) by Alexander McCall Smith
McCall Smith has written another delightful instalment in this wonderful series. As always, it is full of gentle humour and sage advice. The ‘mysteries’ are…
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Not a word is wasted in this lyrical meditation on one woman’s life choices. After attending a number of retreats at a Catholic nuns convent,…
The Luminous Solution by Charlotte Wood
This is a series of essays, many previously published in magazines and newspapers, but brought together in this one volume. As each essay is complete…