New Release Book Review: Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt by Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker

May 27, 2023 Amanda Barrett3 Comments

Title: Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt Author: Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker Published: May 11th 2023 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 784 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary/Historical RRP: $34.99 Rating: 5 stars Spanning a lifetime of love and loss, crossing borders and oceans, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, co-authored by her son Harry Whittaker, draws Lucinda Riley’s Seven Sisters series to its stunning, unforgettable conclusion. 1928,… Continue reading New Release Book Review: Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt by Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker

2022 Reviews · contemporary fiction · mystery

Book Review: The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

February 13, 2023 Amanda BarrettLeave a comment

Title: The Good Sister Author: Sally Hepworth Published: October 27th 2020 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 336 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Crime, Mystery RRP: $19.99 Rating: 4.5 stars From the New York Times bestselling author of The Family Next Door and The Mother-in-Law with new novel The Younger Wife out now. Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And she… Continue reading Book Review: The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

2023 Reviews · contemporary fiction · translation

Book Review: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

February 9, 2023 Amanda BarrettLeave a comment

Title: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi Published: September 24th 2019 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 208 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary RRP: $19.99 Rating: 2.5 stars One of the most popular Booktok books on Tiktok in 2022 In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee… Continue reading Book Review: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

2022 Reviews · contemporary fiction

Book Review: High Stakes by Danielle Steel

January 9, 2023 Amanda BarrettLeave a comment

Title: High Stakes Author: Danielle Steel Published: March 8th 2022 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 320 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary RRP: $32.99 Rating: 2.5 stars High Stakes is the new compelling and thought-provoking novel from the world’s favourite storyteller. A group of successful women discover the high price of success at a prestigious New York literary agency. Jane Addison is smart, young and ambitious delighted to have… Continue reading Book Review: High Stakes by Danielle Steel

2022 Reviews · contemporary fiction · new release · romance

New Release Book Review: The Christmas Postcards by Karen Swan

December 25, 2022 Amanda BarrettLeave a comment

Title: The Christmas Postcards Author: Karen Swan Published: October 25th 2022 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 480 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Romance RRP: $34.99 Rating: 3 stars It had been a make-or-break holiday for their marriage, but Natasha and Rob’s rekindled romance is short-lived when their daughter’s beloved soft toy, Moola, disappears on the journey home. As Natasha comforts a distraught Mabel, she turns… Continue reading New Release Book Review: The Christmas Postcards by Karen Swan

2022 Reviews · contemporary fiction · new release · romance

New Release Book Review: The High Notes by Danielle Steel

December 20, 2022December 21, 2022 Amanda BarrettLeave a comment

Title: The High Notes Author: Danielle Steel Published: October 11th 2022 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 304 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Romance RRP: $32.99 Rating: 3 stars A moving, compelling and uplifting story of following your dreams against the odds from the world’s favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel. Iris Cooper grew up dirt poor in Texas. Her mother left when she was a baby, leaving her to be… Continue reading New Release Book Review: The High Notes by Danielle Steel

2022 Reviews · contemporary fiction · crime · mystery · new release · suspense · thriller

New Release Book Review: Exiles by Jane Harper

November 27, 2022 Amanda Barrett10 Comments

Title: Exiles Author: Jane Harper Published: September 20th 2022 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 416 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Crime, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller RRP: $32.99 Rating: 3 stars At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing into the crowds. A year on, Kim Gillespie’s absence casts a long shadow as her friends and loved… Continue reading New Release Book Review: Exiles by Jane Harper

2022 Reviews · contemporary fiction · crime · mystery · new release · psychological · suspense

New Release Book Review: The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth

November 2, 2022 Amanda BarrettLeave a comment

Title: The Soulmate Author: Sally Hepworth Published: October 25th 2022 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 352 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Crime, Mystery RRP: $34.99 Rating: 4.5 stars Gabe is alone at the cliff’s edge. His arms are outstretched, palms facing the empty air. He said she jumped. He wouldn’t lie. Before the woman went over the cliff, Pippa and Gabe were happy. They had the kind… Continue reading New Release Book Review: The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth

2022 Reviews · contemporary fiction · new release

New Release Book Review: The Couple Upstairs by Holly Wainwright

October 21, 2022 Amanda BarrettLeave a comment

Title: The Couple Upstairs Author: Holly Wainwright Published: August 30th 2022 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 432 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary RRP: $34.99 Rating: 3 stars Five months after Mel told her husband to leave, a ghost moved in upstairs. A young man who reminds her, with eerie intensity, of a past lover, someone who changed Mel’s life and then vanished. When the man’s travelling girlfriend… Continue reading New Release Book Review: The Couple Upstairs by Holly Wainwright

2022 Reviews · contemporary fiction · mystery · new release

New Release Book Review: The Night Tide by Di Morrissey

October 16, 2022 Amanda BarrettLeave a comment

Title: The Night Tide Author: Di Morrissey Published: September 13th 2022 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 416 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Mystery RRP: $39.99 Rating: 3 stars After an election upheaval, Dominic Cochrane decides it’s time to leave his twenty-year political staffer career behind. He opts to stay at a friend’s converted waterside boatshed in a quiet bay in a Sydney backwater. The long-time… Continue reading New Release Book Review: The Night Tide by Di Morrissey

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