Blogs in January 2020

Castle of Dreams 19th January 2020

A time-split novel. In the 1930’s two sisters’, Vivien and Rose Blake grow up in a castle in the far north Queensland rainforest. During the Pacific War they both fall in love with the same American serviceman. In the...

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Out of the Easy 17th January 2020

Josie Moraine wants out of The Big Easy – she needs more than New Orleans can offer. Known locally as a brothel prostitute’s daughter, she dreams of life at an elite college, far away from here. But then a...

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Brewed Awakening 16th January 2020

No 18 in the Coffeehouse Mystery series. When coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi awakens on a bench in Washington Square Park, she has no idea she’s been missing for days, or that her friends and family have been frantic with...

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The Dreamers 16th January 2020

Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months… Karen Thompson Walker’s second novel tells the mesmerising story of a town transformed by a mystery illness that locks people in perpetual sleep and triggers...

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The Unpassing 14th January 2020

In Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel, The Unpassing, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman,...

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