Sue Williams has researched the story The Governor, His Wife and His Mistress meticulously; her knowledge and understanding of early Australian History make it a compelling reading. Using accurate facts and real characters, the story takes us on a journey into the...
Victoria Scott, in The Storyteller’s Daughter, uses the time old tragedy of a family divided through inflexibility and social standing which is in so many ways, timeless, to weave a captivating story over the dual timeline of 1940 and 2008. Nita Bineham was bought up...
The Glassmaker is a captivating Historic Fiction in which Tracy Chevalier explains how she became fascinated with Venice, then Murano and then the practice of glass blowing. She discovered that women were not allowed to enter the trade, but for various reasons there...
Finding Joy in Oyster Bay is Susan’s Duncan’s eighth novel. She has developed a keen sense of description when it comes to the Australian bush and River to Coast life. She describes the various plants, trees birds and snakes which inhabit her environment, and enables...
Leon Conrad has spent a life time researching story, or stories, teaching, lecturing and tutoring in the art of story creation, analysis and restructure and also in pursuit of the answer to the time old question, where do stories come from. In the Preface Conrad...
Moving right along with the final book in the Rising Herald Saga, The Traitors Ruin from Chris Moss, all is not well in in the Sacred Realm and Maal’s Court is once again a hotbed of discontent, with friend and foe pitted against each other and serious issues...
Although this story is a fantasy about “Little People”, it is set in Japan before, during and after the Second World War, it is narrated simply and with understatement, which serves to touch the emotions. The unspoken words are the most powerful. Yuri, the daughter,...
