The first book I read from Harlequin's HERSTORY campaign - featuring historical fiction about women who rebel - was Tea Cooper's The Girl in the Painting. This was my second time reading a book by Tea, having read The Woman in the Green Dress last year, and I absolutely enjoyed both - you can see my reviews here and here. This week Tea...

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Middlegrade fantasy is my favourite thing to read at the moment. There are just so many great stories coming out in this category at the moment. One of the things I'm loving is the increasing amount of diversity I feel like we are seeing in stories for kids (or perhaps I'm paying more attention?). Joseph Elliot's recent novel The Good Hawk, is a...

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March and April have been brilliant months for new releases this year (and there are still a few to come before April is done!). One of my most anticipated books for 20202 - Sarah Epstein's Deep Water was released a week or so ago, and celebrated with an online launch last week. I managed to read it before the event and absolutely ADORED...

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I loved watching Sabrina the teenage witch as a teen, and have been intrigued by the recent Netflix re-boot - but haven't quite got around to watching it (so many tv shows to watch!). Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Season of the Witch by Sarah Rees Brennan gives us a peek into Sabrina's life right before where the TV show kicks off... It's the...

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Anh Do must be one of Australia's most prolific authors at the moment - I feel like he has something new out all the time. I haven't read his lower primary books - like the WeirDo or Hot Dog series - but I have picked up some of his newer middlgrade/YA books - including his most recent release, E-Boy Part human. Part robot....

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Yesterday I posted my review of The Daughter of Victory Lights (check it out here if you missed it). I loved this book, and today I'm sharing a little Q&A with author Kerri Turner, who was kind enough to answer some questions I had for her about her books and writing. Enjoy!  In the notes at the back of The Daughter of Victory...

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Tonight I'm sharing my review of The Daughter of Victory Lights by Kerri Turner, which is one of the gorgeous novels in Harlequin Australia's HERSTORY : Women Who Rebel campaign. This was a wonderful read!  Here's the synopsis from the publisher's website (and you can check it out on Goodreads here): 1945: After the thrill and danger of volunteering in an all-female searchlight...

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After absolutely LOVING Astrid Scholte's debut novel Four Dead Queens last year (my review is here) her next book was high on my list of most anticipated new releases for 2020. I'm always a tiny bit nervous when I've enjoyed a first book so much, but The Vanishing Deep didn't disappoint! Seventeen-year-old Tempe was born into a world of water. When the Great...

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Today's review is of Sara Holland's latest novel HAVENFALL. This is a YA portal fantasy story, which I think is going to be the first half of a duology. For Maddie Morrow, summers at the inn are more than a chance to experience this magic first-hand. Havenfall is an escape from reality, where her mother sits on death row accused of murdering Maddie's...

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I first came across Jessica Miller's then upcoming middlegrade fantasy novel The Republic of Birds when I was spending A LOT of time on twitter following #authorsforfireys. The cover is so stunning it caught my eye immediately (and its even better in real life!) - and, on reading the blurb, I thought it sounded really cool! Here's the summary from Goodreads. Olga loves...

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