Sashenka – Simon Montefiore

Posted on November 13th, 2008 by admin in Fiction

Critics raved about this when it was launched earlier this year – Montefiore weaves the tale of one woman, Sashenka, through the history of modern Russia spanning three generations of women from the time of the Tsars to the oligarchs of today. Shashenka is a truly spellbinding and moving novel.

Winter, 1917: In St Petersburg, snow [...]

Put yourself in these shoes – you give up your cosy, pedestrian existence and move to Afghanistan for three years. Sally Cooper did just that and worked training journalists in radio stations. A Burqa And A Hard Place is her story.

Burqas, car bombs, and Bombay Sapphire welcome to life in post-Taliban Kabul from the viewpoint [...]

Got You Back – Jane Fallon

Posted on November 13th, 2008 by admin in Fiction

There’s nothing like a bit of escapist revenge fiction – from the bestselling author of Getting Rid of Matthew Jane Fallon (Ricky Gervais wife) has released her second novel – Got You Back.

Hell hath no fury like two women scorned…
Stephanie and Katie are strangers but they’re in love with the same man – James Mortimer. [...]

In I Was Told There’d Be Cake “Sloane Crosley channels David Sedaris—and Carrie Bradshaw—in a slightly cracked and often charming collection of essays recounting a suburban girl’s adventures in the big city.”
—Vogue

From accidentally despoiling an exhibit at the Museum of Natural [...]

“As I resigned myself to the fact that the latest Household Guide I’d written would be my last, I conceived in a flash the best idea ever. I rang Nancy and left a message. ‘Think of the title,’ I said. ‘How catchy does The Household Guide to Dying sound?’”

When Delia Bennet – author and domestic [...]

Bird – Sophie Cunningham

Posted on June 20th, 2008 by admin in Australia, Fiction

Sophie Cunningham’s absorbing second novel, Bird, is a convincing search for truth, writes Judith Armstrong. – theage.com.au – June 16 2008

To her lovers and friends, Anna Davidoff was a mystery. Beautiful, charismatic, irresponsible yet disarming; famous, in a way, but ultimately unknowable. To her daughter, she is no less an enigma even now, thirty years [...]

The current number 1 bestseller on Amazon.com David Sedaris’ new essay collection When You Are Engulfed in Flames arrives locally on July 1. Pre-order your copy now.

Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the [...]

Archives

Full Archive

Favourite Links

Tag Cloud

Architecture Art Australia Australian Kindle Autobiography Biography Business Charlaine Harris Cookbooks Cooking Cricket Crime Dan Brown Di Morrissey Fantasy Fashion Gardening Guinness World Records Health History James Patterson John Silvester & Andrew Rule Kindle Love Matthew Reilly Michael Connelly Murder Mystery Oprahs 25 Books You Can't Put Down Photography Politics Science Sport Staff Picks Steig Larsson Stephenie Meyer Stieg Larsson Thriller Top 10 Travel Twilight Saga Twilight Series Vampire Books Various War