Maeve Binchy’s Treasury

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Maeve Binchy

What an absolute joy it is, to be reading Maeve Binchy again in Maeve Binchy’s Treasury and to have a great holiday book to enjoy. Sadly, this wonderful storyteller passed...
Fiction
Death in Daylesford

By

Kerry Greenwood

After a mysterious invitation arrives from a certain Captain Herbert Spencer, whom runs a spa for shell shocked soldiers of the First World War arrives The Hon Fryne Fisher and...
Crime, Fiction
The Fifth Season

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Philip Salom

The Fifth Season is not a book for everyone as it is dark, deep and prods at the very things we all like to keep locked away, that of our...
Fiction
The Shearer’s Wife

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Fleur McDonald

Fleur McDonald does not disappoint in The Shearers Wife as she has skilfully crafted out another well researched story looking at the many layers of life in rural Australia and...
Fiction
The Dickens Boy

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Thomas kenealley

What a joy it is to read the words of master storyteller Thomas Keneally. He has presented this Historical fiction, The Dickens Boy in such a way that it captures...
Fiction, History
The Night Letters

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DENISE LEITH

Set in Afghanistan just as the Americans are leaving the war torn country, Australian doctor Sofia Raso sits in her window in the early morning light, watching as the local...
Fiction
Honeybee

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Craig Silvey

Two lives meet; one young, one old, both facing what they consider the inevitable choice of their final moments alive; a last cigarette, a climb over the rails. Their eyes...
Fiction
State Highway One

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Sam Coley

Estranged from his family, Alex an Aucklander, flies back to New Zealand after a shattering phone call, to bury his famous film- director parents. Their sudden death, as the result...
Fiction
Against the Loveless World

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Susan Abulhawa

The Middle East is arguably a man’s world. The current crop of regional leaders is male. The leaders that have been overthrown were all males. Unsurprisingly the biggest terrorist organisations...
Fiction
The Lost Man

By

Jane Harper

As with many of the best murder mysteries, Jane Harper has interwoven sub plots and relationships to create a realistic story in The Lost Man. We are introduced to the...
Crime, Fiction