New Release Book Review: White Sands of Summer by J.H. Fletcher

July 17, 2019 Amanda Barrett3 Comments

Title: White Sands of Summer Author: J.H. Fletcher Published: May 20th 2019 Publisher: Mira – AU Pages: 416 Genres: Fiction, Historical RRP: $29.99 Rating: 3.5 stars Will wealth and love be theirs for the taking or will they run like sand through their fingers? No-one thought barmaid Shannon Harcourt stood a chance with Hal Maitland, heir to the vast Maitland fortune.… Continue reading New Release Book Review: White Sands of Summer by J.H. Fletcher

2019 Reviews · Britain · historical fiction · romance

Book Review: The Runaway Daughter by Joanna Rees

July 16, 2019 Amanda Barrett1 Comment

Title: The Runaway Daughter Author: Joanna Rees Published: February 26th 2019 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 400 Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance RRP: $29.99 Rating: 3.5 stars It’s 1926 and Anna Darton is on the run from a terrible crime she was forced into committing. Alone and scared in London, salvation comes in the form of Nancy, a sassy American dancer at the notorious nightclub, The… Continue reading Book Review: The Runaway Daughter by Joanna Rees

#aww2019 · 2019 Reviews · Australian · historical fiction

Book Review: In a Great Southern Land by Mary-Anne O’Connor

July 15, 2019 Amanda Barrett8 Comments

Title: In a Great Southern Land Author: Mary-Anne OConnor Published: March 18th 2019 Publisher: HQ Fiction – AU Pages: 416 Genres: Fiction, Historical RRP: $32.99 Rating: 4.5 stars From the soft green hills of Ireland to the wild Shipwreck Coast of southern Victoria, the rich farm lands of New South Wales to the sudden battlefields of Ballarat, this is an epic story… Continue reading Book Review: In a Great Southern Land by Mary-Anne O’Connor

2019 Reviews · contemporary fiction · new release · romance

New Release Book Review: Lost and Found by Danielle Steel

July 14, 2019 Amanda Barrett3 Comments

Title: Lost and Found Author: Danielle Steel Published: June 25th 2019 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 288 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Romance RRP: $29.99 Rating: 3 stars What might have been? This tantalizing question propels a woman on a cross-country adventure to reunite with the men she had loved and let go. Madison Allen is a renowned, career-driven photographer. Sifting through old photos in her fashionable New… Continue reading New Release Book Review: Lost and Found by Danielle Steel

#aww2019 · 2019 Reviews · Australian · China · historical fiction · new release

New Release Book Review: The Boy with Blue Trousers by Carol Jones

July 14, 2019 Amanda Barrett5 Comments

Title: The Boy with Blue Trousers Author: Carol Jones Published: June 17th 2019 Publisher: Head of Zeus – GB Pages: 432 Genres: Fiction, Historical RRP: $32.99 Rating: 4.5 stars On the goldfields of 19th-century Australia, two very different girls are trying to escape their past. 1856, China. In the mulberry groves of the Pearl River Delta, eighteen-year-old Little Cat carries a terrible… Continue reading New Release Book Review: The Boy with Blue Trousers by Carol Jones

Interview · Tea with Mrs B

Tea with Mrs B: Carol Jones

July 14, 2019July 14, 2019 Amanda Barrett1 Comment

Welcome to Tea with Mrs B, an author interview series. Here to share a pot of tea and to chat about her brand new book, The Boy with Blue Trousers, is Carol Jones. Born in Brisbane, Australia, Carol Jones taught English and Drama at secondary schools before working as an editor of children’s magazines. She… Continue reading Tea with Mrs B: Carol Jones

2019 Reviews · Britain · historical fiction · new release · World War I

New Release Book Review: You’ll Never See Me Again by Lesley Pearse

July 11, 2019 Amanda Barrett4 Comments

Title: You’ll Never See Me Again Author: Lesley Pearse Published: July 2nd 2019 Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Pages: 400 Genres: Fiction, Historical RRP: $32.99 Rating: 5 stars You have to keep running if you want to survive . . . When her husband returns shell-shocked and broken from the Great War and his mother makes her life a misery, Betty Wellow discovers how bitter… Continue reading New Release Book Review: You’ll Never See Me Again by Lesley Pearse

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Book reviews and recommendations from a self confessed book geek

Author: Amanda Barrett