Over recent years I have read several books that have all won prestigious book prizes. With many of them I have wondered just what the hyp...

As soon as I was offered this book to read, I knew that I wanted to do so! It ticks so many boxes for me! I enjoy Gold Rush stories, I love...

When we decided that we were going to have this week where we shared the favourite fiction set in our own countries, it sounded like a reall...

It's January 1943. Australia is at war and Perth is buzzing. US troops have permanently docked in the city in what local men refe...

Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man. Sure, he grew up doing the Dead Man Dance, but with him...

Last year, I saw a couple of posts on an Rebecca's Book Blog (an American blog which is kind of ironic in a way) talking about a new ch...

A heart-warming novel in the tradition of CLOUDSTREET and THE HARP IN THE SOUTH Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed ...

First settlement in New South Wales Born in 1767 England, Daniel Rooke was a boy of great intelligence. He was exceptional with numbers a...

Daniel Rooke,soldier and astronomer, was always an outsider. As a young lieutenant of marines he arrives in New South Wales on the First Fle...

An Amazing Journey and Amazing Historical Fiction! As a young child, Elspeth lived with her father, the groundskeeper of the estate of Lord ...

Not too long before I started blogging I read The Secret River by Kate Grenville and I quite enjoyed it. It has taken a while, but we final...

It was exciting to be on our way last...but we were such innocents. We had no idea of the hell that lay ahead. Even if we had known, what co...

In fear for their lives after the sudden death of their mother, Adela and Klara must flee Prague to find refuge with their uncle in Australi...