The room filled mostly with couples, leaning toward each other across tables, enclosed in their own spheres of candelit intimacy. Fingers reaching toward fingers, or flying through the air, drawing … [Read more...]
Book Review: Red Dust by Fleur McDonald
Outback novels, in truth, have been few and far between on the bookshelves of my life, let alone one of ‘love, intrigue and redemption’, so I was very keen to start this debut tale by Fleur McDonald, … [Read more...]
Book Review: Because You Are With Me by Anna McPartlin
“What if your boyfriend died right in front of you…” When I first picked up this debut novel by Irish writer and comedian, Anna McPartlin, I scanned the beautiful photograph on the very sentimental … [Read more...]
Book of the Month: Hopetoun Wives by Fran Cusworth
For her second novel, Melbourne based author Fran Cusworth revisited the year she followed her husband to a mining town on the south west coast of Australia. Although a work of fiction, the story of … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Secret Pleasures of Menopause by Christiane Northrup
At the age of 39, I figured I had about 10 years before I personally needed to read a book on menopause. But as my job also requires that I review books that may be of interest to women, I recently … [Read more...]
To Hellas and Back: My Modern-day Greek Tragedy by Lana Penrose
To Hellas and Back is the true story of one woman's four year Greek Odyssey for love. Lana Penrose subtitled her book, 'My modern-day Greek tragedy', but it soon becomes clear to the reader that … [Read more...]
No Time for Dances: A Memoir of My Sister by Gillian Bouras
In 1996, just a week before Christmas and after a life long struggle with mental illness, a woman named Jacqueline killed herself at the age of fifty. Tragically, her body remained undiscovered in … [Read more...]
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