A S Patric’s Black Rock White City is a story about the damages of war, the limits of choice, and the hope of love. Read my full review of this mesmerising novel. Black Rock White City Synopsis During a hot…
The scandalous Australian woman who enchanted British society Rosetta Synopsis: Headstrong and beautiful, in 1905 Rosetta escaped her safe Melbourne life, deserting her respectable husband and five-year-old daughter to run away with Zeno the Magnificent, a half-Chinese fortune teller and seducer…
Today we welcome Anna Westbrook to Booklover Book Reviews to share with us how she came to write her debut novel Dark Fires Shall Burn. AND thanks to Scribe Publications, we have a paperback copy to giveaway. — Dark Fires…
Part detective story, part brutal alternate history, Peter Tieryas’ United States of Japan is a stunning successor to Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle. Read on for our full review. United States of Japan Book Synopsis Decades ago, Japan won…
One Synopsis : The last bushrangers in Australian history, James and Patrick Kenniff, were at the height at their horse thieving operation at turn of the 20th century. In One, troops cannot pull the Kenniff Gang out of the ranges and plains…
In Catherine Lowell’s debut novel The Madwoman Upstairs, the only remaining descendant of the Brontë family embarks on a modern-day literary scavenger hunt (with the help of a handsome but inscrutable Oxford professor) to find the family’s long-rumored secret estate,…
The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish Synopsis : Painted in white, red and black ochre, the heart-shaped mask was one of the greatest creations of primitive man. The size of a dining table, it was carved with crazed, spiky lines that…
That Devil’s Madness by Dominique Wilson ranks as one of my dozen Top Aussie Reads of 2016. That Devil’s Madness Synopsis In 1896 Louis and his father, seduced by the allure of North Africa, travel to Algeria in search of a…
THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE . . . in which Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious series of adventures. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage Synopsis: The (Mostly) True Story of…
Nicole Mones’ The Last Chinese Chef is a delicious escape for foodies and romantics alike. The Last Chinese Chef Synopsis: This alluring novel of friendship, love, and cuisine brings the best-selling author of Lost in Translation and A Cup of Light…
Longitude Book Synopsis: The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius – reissued on the tercentenary of the foundation of the Longitude…
LJM Owen’s Olmec Obituary is the first novel in the fascinating series: Dr Pimms, Intermillennial Sleuth. Really cold cases. Read on for our review. Olmec Obituary Synopsis Yearning for her former life as an archaeologist, Australian librarian Dr. Elizabeth Pimms is struggling with a…
Beauty is a Wound is the first of Indonesian author Eka Kurniawan’s novels to be translated into English. Beauty is a Wound Synopsis: Compulsively readable, Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humour, and romance in an astonishing epic novel,…
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Summary The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are…
Fever of Animals Synopsis : Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Award 2014 For nearly five years I have wanted to write something about the surrealist painter Emil Bafdescu: about his paintings, one of which hangs in a little restaurant in…
The Port Fairy Murders Synopsis : The Port Fairy Murders is the sequel to The Holiday Murders, a political and historical crime novel set in 1943, featuring the newly formed homicide department of Victoria Police. The department has been struggling to counter…
