Book Gift Guide 2017
Holiday season is upon us and there really is no better gift than a book! In addition to books we have read this year that we think would make great gifts, we’ve sought recommendations from other experts and enthusiasts in…
Literature
THE UNITY GAME by Leonora Meriel, Book Review
The Unity Game Synopsis WHAT IF THE EARTH YOU KNEW WAS JUST THE BEGINNING? A New York banker is descending into madness. A being from an advanced civilization is racing to stay alive. A dead man must unlock the secrets of…
SOON by Lois Murphy, Review: An utterly gripping debut
Lois Murphy’s Soon won the 2017 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel. Read on for our full review. Soon Book Synopsis An almost deserted town in the middle of nowhere, Nebulah’s days of mining and farming prosperity – if they ever truly…
Atlantic Black by A S Patric, Review: Impressive
Atlantic Black is the latest novel from Miles Franklin award-winning author of Black Rock White City, A S Patric. Read my review. Atlantic Black Synopsis In this haunting new novel, Katerina Klova and her mother are crossing the Atlantic by ocean…
The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk, Review: Insightful
Orhan Pamuk’s latest novel The Red-Haired Woman — a beguiling mystery tale of family and romance, of east and west, tradition and modernity, by one of the great storytellers of our time. The Red-Haired Woman Synopsis From the Nobel Prize winner and…
Eleanor Oliphant is more than ‘Completely Fine’, she is wonderful: Review
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman’s debut is deeply moving and impactful fiction about learning to live, not just survive. Read on to learn what really makes this audiobook truly special and some of my favourite quotes. Eleanor Oliphant…
THE TALENTED RIBKINS by Ladee Hubbard, Book Review
The Talented Ribkins Synopsis : At seventy-two, Johnny Ribkins shouldn’t have such problems: He’s got one week to come up with the money he stole from his mobster boss or it’s curtains for Johnny. What may or may not be useful to…
SPRING GARDEN by Tomoka Shibasaki, Book Review
Spring Garden, winner of the Akutagawa Prize, is a sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope. Spring Garden Synopsis: Divorced and cut off from his family, Taro lives alone in one of the few occupied apartments in his block, a…
Impossible Views of the World by Lucy Ives, Review: Spiky narrator
Impossible Views of the World is Lucy Ives’ witty, urbane, and sometimes shocking debut novel, set in a hallowed New York museum, in which a co-worker’s disappearance and a mysterious map change a life forever. Read our full review. Impossible…
Michael Fitzgerald on THE PACIFIC ROOM
We welcome to Booklover Book Reviews author Michael Fitzgerald. The Pacific Room is his debut novel and today he shares with us the very personal journeys that inspired him to write it. The Pacific Room Synopsis: This remarkable debut novel tells of the…
BEAUTY IN THORNS by Kate Forsyth, Review: Poetic symbolism
Bestselling author Kate Forsyth’s new novel Beauty in Thorns is a spellbinding reimagining of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ set amongst the wild bohemian circle of Pre-Raphaelite artists and poets. Beauty in Thorns Synopsis The Pre-Raphaelites were determined to liberate art and love from…
Please Do Not Disturb by Robert Glancy, Review: Snappy dialogue
Please Do Not Disturb is a funny, disturbing, and deeply affecting novel of power, corruption, and innocence in colonial Africa, by Robert Glancy, the author of Terms & Conditions. Please Do Not Disturb Synopsis As the African nation of Bwalo prepares…
Booklover Mailbox – Beauty in Thorns, The Student & The High Places
Three distinctly different titles this fortnight – a fairytale reimagining, gritty neo-noir and an award winning short story collection. Beauty in Thorns by Kate Forsyth I am long time fan of Forsyth’s writing (Bitter Greens, The Wild Girl, The Beast’s Garden). Beauty…
FAMILIAR THINGS by Hwang Sok-yong, Book Review
Familiar Things by Hwang Sok-yong… A new novel from one of South Korea’s most celebrated contemporary writers. Familiar Things Synopsis: Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea’s glittering metropolis is a place few people know about: a vast landfill site called…
Booklover Mailbox – Christoffer Carlsson, Hwang Sok-Yong and Lucy Ives
Three distinctly different titles this fortnight – two literary, two in translation, two yet to be released. October is the Coldest Month by Christoffer Carlsson Hot on the heels of his bestselling Scandinavian crime series featuring Leo Junker, Swedish author Christoffer…
AN IDEAL HUSBAND by Oscar Wilde, Book Review
An Ideal Husband in audiobook… a classic play by Oscar Wilde performed by LA Theatre Works An Ideal Husband Synopsis: A tender love story, a serpentine villainess, a glittering setting in London society, and a showering of Wildean witticism are only…
