Booker prize listed author, Sebastian Barry, has achieved something quite remarkable with this poetic, tale of Winona Cole, an ‘injun’ girl at the time of the American Civil War, when American Indians were considered to [...]
A beautifully written, highly evocative novel about Olivia (Oli) who experiences synaesthesia ie she sees words, people and sensations with colour. For example, her friend Maggie is velvet lilac and this colour is perfect for [...]
This is a novel where things are not what they seem. And even when you think you have it all sorted there is a surprise twist at the end! Grace, a delightful daughter with a [...]
A unique and uplifting story that doesn’t resort to sugar coating life. I enjoyed the way the main character, a 71 year-old psychiatrist counting down to retirement, develops from a “toad” into someone you can [...]
I have never cared for the Greek myths, but I found this story of the Greek goddess, Circe, completely captivating. I read it in three sittings. Miller has brilliantly created a fantasy world for the [...]
“I was a girl once, but not any more”. So begins the extraordinary story of Maryam, abducted with other schoolgirls by Boko Haram. It is beautifully written by the outstanding Edna O’Brien, who does not [...]
A fascinating historical fiction that charts the lives of a Spanish couple, Victor and Roser. Displaced by the Civil War, they are among a small number of refugees taken in by Chile and make a [...]
Four friends who have known each other for what seems like forever suddenly become three, with the death of Sylvie. They gather together for a last Christmas in Sylvie’s holiday house to clear the house [...]
A beautiful, poignant story of love: for the marshlands of North Carolina and its unique flora and fauna, for family, for life. Kya, the “Marsh Girl” is abandoned by her family and has to scrape [...]
You don't have to love birds to enjoy this book. It will open your eyes afresh to colonial Australia and the discovery of our wonderful fauna and flora and the fierce competition to be the [...]
