I read Kate Morton’s new novel The Clockmaker’s Daughter when it first came out last month, and I think it has been one of my favourite reads this year. This is only the second of her books that I’ve read (the first being The Secret Keeper) and I am definitely keen to read the rest of her backlist because I love her writing...

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Tonight I'm sharing another new Christmas release from a favourite cosy Christmas author - Tilly Tennant's The Christmas Wish. Here's the summary from Goodreads... Christmas is coming but it doesn’t feel that way for Esme Greenwood. Recently jilted by her cheating fiancee Warren, she’s had enough of London life and escapes to Thimble Cottage in the Peak District, home of her beloved grandmother...

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Confession time! When the people from Pan Macmillan Australiagot in touch to see if I wanted to review Two Dark Reigns - the latest release in Kendare Blake’s super popular YA fantasy Three Dark Crowns - I said yes even though I hadn’t read the first two yet (I did already own them though!). After binge-reading all three books over a weekend a...

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If you follow me over on Instagram you will likely have seen that I've been away on a bookish retreat with friends this weekend (I might have been overgramming, who can say?  haha). We had the best time - we rented an Airbnb just outside Canberra from Friday evening until Sunday morning and spent the whole time reading, writing (a couple of my...

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A few weeks ago I posted about a new horsey middle-grade novel I had read and loved - The Promise Horse by Jackie Merchant. Since then, I have been lucky enough to be able to get in touch with Jackie to ask her a few questions about writing The Promise Horse - her answers are below =) Do you remember when the idea...

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Ok, I don't want anyone to panic, but did you know today it's exactly 10 weeks until Christmas?!! (This is especially exciting for us this year since we're headed to the US & Canada for the holidays!) Now, you may know that I take my Christmass-iness seriously and absolutely love indulging in a sweet festive story - either in the form of a...

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This year for the first time I have been a member of a book club where we all read the same book and discuss it together. It is run through my local Harry Hartog book shop, and our host Claire does such an amazing job each month. This month's meeting was yesterday (we read The Second Cure by Margaret Morgan) and I thought...

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The Girl who Fell is the first book in #loveozYA fantasy series, The Chess Raven Chronicles. In this first installment we meet unlikely heroin Chess Raven, and discover with her a whole new side to her life. Chess Raven is a hacker who has grown up with nothing and no one. Her parents died when she was three and her foster care situation...

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Earlier this week I shared my thoughts on Carla Caruso's fun and food-filled novel, The Right Place. Carla was kind enough to answer some questions I asked about the book and her experience writing it - read on to see what she told me about it. Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE Continue Reading