History was my worst subject at school. But reading Fiona Sussman's Shifting Colours made the experience of apartheid in South Africa real, as...
DebraDecember 28, 2025
The main character leaves her marriage and high-profile environmental activism role to move to a convent. She wants to be near the place...
DebraDecember 1, 2025
In the second novel of Patricia Wolf's series, DS Lucas Walker is in Surfer’s Paradise providing training workshops for police while recuperating from...
DebraNovember 1, 2025
This rural Australian crime novel has all the classic ingredients – a man-alone detective, a love interest, a harsh and intense landscape, and...
DebraNovember 1, 2025
Jennifer Weiner's signature is all over ‘Goodnight Nobody’ – in a good way. She nails the agony of being around people who have...
DebraOctober 1, 2025
This is a huge book, both in size (597 pages) and in its examination of what it means to be in relationship with...
DebraSeptember 1, 2025
This novel is about an Irish family of four who are under stress following the 2008 financial crisis. They are doing dumb and...
DebraSeptember 1, 2025
Ann Naplitano’s novel has sentences in it that I read over and over, before re-immersing myself in the drama of four sisters. It...
DebraAugust 1, 2025
Greta grew up in the shadow of her distant, distracted mother. Then she fell in love with a man who turned out to...
DebraSeptember 6, 2023
This novel begins in Sri Lanka, with a young woman about to meet a man through a matchmaking service. Her family have initiated...
DebraSeptember 6, 2023
