Author: Sophie Masson Publisher: Random House Australia Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 978-1-74275-379-9 No of Pages: 318 Review By: Olivia Mann (Year 8) Book Synopsis: I enjoyed this book a lot. I think it is a great adaptation on the classic fairy tale Cinderella, yet it is original and different to others I’ve read. I really liked the descriptions of the different settings …
Author: Sherryl Clark Publisher: Sherryl Clark (Aust) Kane Miller (USA) Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Vikki Petraitis Book Synopsis: Sherryl Clark has hit of a winner here. Her teen protagonist, Sasha, is plucky and struggling both with moving away from where she grew up, but also coming to terms with her growing psychic ability. At the same time, she has …
Author: Ellie Marney Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sarah Robinson-Hatch Book Synopsis: Within 20 pages, I was absolutely in love with the characters and the plot. Rachel and Mycroft connect because they’re both struggling to find out where they belong in a world that doesn’t understand them. At first I wasn’t too convinced that I’d love …
Author: Sulari Gentill Publisher: Pantara Press Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: This is the fifth book in the Rowland Sinclair series, eagerly awaited by me and yet again a book I found difficult to put down. I have followed Roland Sinclair and his friends, Edna, the sculptress, Milton, the poet and Clyde, another artist, since the …
Author: Kerry Greenwood Publisher: Allen and Unwin Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: Now that flapper sleuth Miss Fisher is well advanced in her second series on ABC television, it’s salutary to ponder how her parallel career in crime fiction is travelling. This is not the first time an established crime writer has had to negotiate the …
Author: Angela Savage Copyright Year: 2013 No of Pages: 339 Review By: Sue Turnbull and Maggie Baron Book Synopsis: Sue Turnbull Review The politics of race and place are up front and centre in Angela Savage’s third crime novel to feature Australian private investigator, Jayne Keeney. Picking up where the Bangkok-based Jayne’s previous case left her, on the precarious …
Author: LA Larkin Publisher: Pier 9 an Imprint of Murdoch Books Copyright Year: 2012 ISBN: 9781741967890 Review By: Jo McGahey Book Synopsis: Thirst is L.A . Larkin’s second book, and like her first, The Genesis Flaw, it is a thriller written with an environmental theme. The time frame for this book is ‘a few years from now… ‘ and it is …
Author: Karen M. Davis Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia ISBN: 9781922052520 Review By: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines Book Synopsis: Karen Davis’s first novel is a romp through bikie hierarchy and cultures with many a twist and turn that keeps the reader’s interest. Action begins with the self immolation of a young woman as Detective Lexie Rogers and her partner, Detective Sergeant Brad …
Author: Honey Brown Publisher: Penguin / Michael Joseph Copyright Year: 2013 ISBN: 9781921901539 Review By: Angela Savage and Lesley Vick Book Synopsis: I’ll admit upfront that I think Honey Brown is one of the best writers of psychological thrillers in Australia today. Her latest novel Dark Horse only confirms my good opinion of her work. Dark Horse opens Christmas morning as …
Author: Lindy Cameron, Editor Publisher: Five Mile Press Copyright Year: 2009 Review By: Phyllis King Book Synopsis: Outside the Law 3 brings together another collection of true crime stories which, this time, as Lindy Cameron explains in her introduction, largely fall into two categories: “the appalling abuse or tragic loss of children; and the life and times of Australia’s big- …