Yes, Antonia Forest AGAIN! I bought this modern reissue, from the excellent Girls Gone By , at considerable expense, as a Christmas presen...

I bought Ash Road on the Kindle, too! I thought it would be pretty easy to pick up second-hand, but it never seemed to be on the shelf in...

Sarah Waters' latest novel, set in 1922, has been sitting on the pile beside the bed since Christmas -- I've been saving it up as ...

Please don't think that the fact that it's taken me a few days to write a book response to Ellie Marney's final volume in the ...

This was my second reading of Morris Gleitzman's Boy Overboard , and I must admit, I probably wouldn't have gone back to it if we ...

I stumbled on Jennifer Gordon's memoir Speechless: My Recovery From Stroke while I was browsing on Brotherhood Books . It's a sli...

We read the first book in Ellie Marney's excellent series, Every Breath , last year for the Convent book group, and when I saw volume ...

Looking for a cover image of this 1963 novel, I discovered that it had been made into a film only a couple of years later. Now I'm des...

I bought this on the Kindle. It's a book group selection for next month, under the topic of Refugees. Given the traumatic subject matt...

Sometimes you just want an easy, juicy, trashy read, and that was what I was in the mood for this week, so I reached for Liane Moriarty...

This is a wonderful, disturbing, beautiful, very unhappy book. It recounts the year that Helen Macdonald spent taming and training a gosha...

My family was introduced to Yuval Noah Harari courtesy of a random podcast on a long drive one day -- I think it might have been from the ...

Four weeks ago, my father had a massive stroke. For a few days, we thought we were going to lose him; thankfully, he is still with us, but...

Girls Gone By Publishing are re-issuing the impossible-to-find 'holiday' titles of Antonia Forest's Marlows series, and I eag...

Hesba Brinsmead was a prolific Australian writer for young people, who has been criminally neglected in accounts of Australian YA. Born an...