Tug of War Synopsis April – May 1942 Captain John Garrett of the Australian Army has been ordered back to Melbourne from Townsville to investigate a suspected intelligence leak in Central Bureau. Garrett and an American Captain, Al Tucker are placed…
Today Booklover Book Reviews is hosting the TLC Book Tour for Blood Zero Sky by J Gabriel Gates. Blood Zero Sky Synopsis Unprofitables are banished to work camps to pay off their credit. Other tie-men and women look on apathetically. Fair…
Today Booklover Book Reviews has the great pleasure of hosting the TLC Book Tour for What The Zhang Boys Know, A Novel in Stories by Clifford Garstang. What The Zhang Boys Know Synopsis Set in a condominium building on the…
The Golden Door Synopsis Where were you when John F. Kennedy was shot? Today the answer more often than not is going to be ‘not born’. You have to be some way past 45 to know where you were when Kennedy…
“At its heart, Suzanne Joinson’s A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar celebrates the gifts that travel into far-off cultures confers: the displacements that throw into resilient relief our transcendent human connections” – National Geographic Traveler, Book of the Month A Lady Cyclist’s…
Shine Shine Shine Synopsis When Maxon met Sunny, he was seven years, four months, and eighteen-days old. Or, he was 2693 rotations of the earth old. Maxon was different. Sunny was different. They were different together. Now, twenty years later, they…
In Gillespie and I, Jane Harris has crafted an immensely engaging tale filled with a cast of eccentric characters and enough red herrings to sink a ship. Gillespie and I Synopsis As she sits in her Bloomsbury home with her two…
Love in the Years of Lunacy by Mandy Sayer is a moving, tender and compelling story of forbidden love set amid the devastation of war. Love in the Years of Lunacy Synopsis Sydney, 1942. Pearl is eighteen, beautiful and impetuous. She plays…
The Curse of the Pharaohs is the second title in Elizabeth Peters’ bestselling Amelia Peabody Series. The Curse of the Pharaohs Synopsis The sun rides high over the British Empire and the light still sparkles brightly in Amelia Peabody’s eye…
The Book of Lost Fragrances is a sweeping and suspenseful tale of secrets, intrigue, and lovers separated by time, all connected through the mystical qualities of a perfume created in the days of Cleopatra–and lost for 2,000 years. The Book…
Comedy In A Minor Key Synopsis A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation — and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners — Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch…
The Eyre Affair Book Synopsis There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of ‘Jane Eyre’. In this world there…
Memento Mori Synopsis Muriel Spark’s blackly comic masterwork begins with a voice on the telephone warning, “Remember, you must die.” The recipient of the grim message is elderly Dame Lettie Colston, but soon 10 of Lettie’s oldest friends also become targets…
In The Informationist Taylor Stevens has brought into the world a gritty and irresistible heroine who has enormous scope for future adventures — Vanessa “Michael” Munroe. The Informationist Synopsis Vanessa “Michael” Munroe deals in information—expensive information—working for corporations, heads of state, private…
Boomerang : The Meltdown Tour Synopsis Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn’t begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit…
Tancredi Synopsis : Tancredi was born on the same day that scientists discovered a new star. It was so small it had gone unnoticed for millennia. Stargazers named it Surprise, in the spirit of a little astrological joke. On closer inspection…
