My first 5 star rating for 2026. I lost myself in this story. I loved Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick. I loved her as an unlovable child….

‘Cora’s daughter talks about seeing a counsellor for years, ‘but she too has been slow to lift the heaviest stones and look at the dark…

‘At their age, there was no point in beating about the bush.’ I confess to being a big fan of Joanna Nell’s books. They are…

This exquisite novel explores the human need for love, no matter our age; that deep yearning to be seen, and heard and held. Addie Moore…

Vince Flynn who passed away in 2013 at the age of 47, wrote 13 novels featuring the character Mitch Rapp, a CIA assassin. The series…

Its 1976 and Tom and Alice, are traveling in their RV hoping to not only mend their marriage after tragedy but to go on an…

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…

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…

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…

Paul Auster, the highly acclaimed laureate of hip New York, author of The New York Trilogy and a lauded list of novels and memoirs (with…

Anne Tyler has done it again. Her books can appear to be simple tellings of domestic lives. But don’t you be fooled, Tyler’s characters, particularly…