I'm delighted today to be joining in with the blog tour for Carol Jones' historical fiction novel The Boy with Blue Trousers. Here is the synopsis - read on below to find out what I thought. On the goldfields of 19th-century Australia, two very different girls are trying to escape their past. English governess Violet Hartley has fled from England after a...
I read The True Story of Maddie Bright months ago - maybe even as long ago as Easter? I thought I should catch up on some reviews and was surprised to find I hadn't published my review of this one yet! First here's the summary from Goodreads... In 1920, seventeen-year-old Maddie Bright is thrilled to take a job as a serving girl on...
One of the best series I read last year was Kendare Blake's YA fantasy Three Dark Crowns - you might remember me raving about it when book 3 (Two Dark Reigns) came out and I binge read all three books in a weekend (check out my review here). Of course I was delighted when Pan Macmillan sent me Five Dark Fates, the fourth...
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Review :: A Christmas Wish and a Cranberry Kiss at the Cosy Kettle :: Liz Eeles
I'm keeping this one super short, because to be honest I don't have a whole lot to say about A Christmas Wish and a Cranberry Kiss at the Cosy Kettle. Here's the summary from Goodreads: Running from heartbreak, twenty-five-year-old Becca has moved to the cosy village of Honeyford. Living with her best friend Zac in a little stone cottage, and serving mince pies...
I found The Wailing Woman an absolute delight to read. As a Buffy fan from way back I always love an urban fantasy, and I think Maria Lewis might be an absolute master of the genre. Here's the synopsis from the Hachette Australia website - read on to find out some of my favourite things about this one! Good girls don't talk back....
I have taken a little break from my Christmassy NetGalley-athon this week, but don't worry! I still have something festive to share! I wanted to talk a bit about some of the reading plans (aspirations) I have outside of the NetGalley books. Here's my little stack of bookish Christmassy joy: Last Christmas - Edited by Greg Wise and Emma Thompson I mentioned this...
I really enjoyed Dream Riders: Frankie, the first book in the Dream Riders series, when I read it during my Aussie Middlegrade binge in May so I was really pleased when the team at Walker Books sent me a copy of Dream Riders: Storm. This one picks up where Frankie left off - when Frankie and Storm met - and we get the...
I'm terrible at reading nonfiction. I didn't realise quite how little of it I read until I was looking through my Goodreads shelves to see what titles I'd read lately and saw that I haven't read a single nonfiction book this year, and I think I only one or maybe two last year. For the past week or so my Instagram feed has...
Now that we're inside of 50 days to go until Christmas I wanted to start sharing some books that I think would make beautiful gifts for kids, starting with the gorgeous The Secret Lives of Unicorns by Dr Temisa Seraphini and Sophie Robin (from Walker Books) If you thought unicorns were strictly imaginary, think again. Anatomy, evolution, life cycle, magical properties: prepare to...
This week's Christmassy NetGalley-athon book is It Won't be Christmas Without You by Beth Reekles. Here's the synopsis (from Goodreads)... Eloise, a self-confessed Christmas obsessive, can’t wait for the big day. Devoted to her Michael Bublé playlist, she’s organising the school nativity play and even her gorgeous Grinch of a neighbour, James, can’t get her down. Her workaholic twin sister, Cara, on the...
I feel super lucky every time I get book mail from publishers, and in the past month or so I've had some especially exciting books arrive so I thought I'd do a little round up here. This is also a kind of sneak peek of some of the books I'll be reviewing her over the next little while. Click the titles to go...
We've had some wonderful bookish events in Canberra's bookstores this year, and tonight I spent a fun hour or so listening to Garth Nix talk about his new book Angel Mage with one of my favourite local authors Leife Shallcross at Harry Hartog in Woden. I have seen Garth speak a couple of times now and I think he is just so engaging...
