“It was, everyone agreed, fanning themselves outside the store or passing in the shade of the eucalyptus trees, unseasonably warm for September.” This...
DebraAugust 15, 2021
The first thing I noticed about ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ by Bernardine Evaristo is the free-flowing nature of the sentences. Its lack of full...
DebraAugust 15, 2021
This is a thumper of a novel. It doesn’t start this way – it begins with a snug domestic scene filled with small...
DebraMay 15, 2021
Since coming across Jane Harper’s ‘The Dry’ a couple of months ago, I have consumed her other three books – ‘Force of Nature’...
DebraMay 15, 2021
Ellen is a hypnotherapist who meets a man through an online dating site because it’s not easy to meet men in the normal...
DebraMay 15, 2021
Charlotte Gray has a pretty grim cover image of a train station, smokiness, a woman in a big coat. Plus it's set in...
DebraMay 15, 2021
Jane Harper’s novel is set in a small town called Kiewarra, which is a five hour drive from Melbourne, and a place of...
DebraFebruary 21, 2021
Richard Ford is the writer of the famous series of books – Independence Day, The Sportswriter and The Lay of the Land. These...
DebraJanuary 30, 2021
In The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman turns on its head the perception that retirement homes are places where people sit in chairs...
DebraJanuary 9, 2021
The House of Deep Water is Jeni McFarland’s first novel but it doesn’t read that way. The writing is captivating from the first...
DebraDecember 29, 2020
