Full moon rising By Keri Arthur Piatkus Books, London, 2007 An action packed adventure story set in mid-twenty-first century Melbourne, this isn’t a book to easily put down. The plot moves along fast, but you don’t always know what is coming or where the plot will lead to, which makes it fun! Similar to many [...]
Words from the heart… To be diagnosed with breast cancer is to face a frightening, life-changing experience, and many women who undergo this experience demonstrate extraordinary courage, strength, humour, generosity and compassion on their breast cancer journey. The National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC), the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) and the Breast Cancer Network Australia [...]
Confessions of a SuperMom by Melanie Lynne Hauser Published 2005 Dutton, Penguin Group New York For every woman who has struggled with being an ordinary housewife and for everybody who has wished that superheros are real, this is the book you need. Single Mum of two, Birdie Lee, underrates herself and struggles to work, help [...]
Sleeping with the fishes By MaryJanice Davidson Piatkus Books Ltd, London, 2006 Just another half-girl half-mermaid meets two boys story – except of course that one of the boys is a merman prince who lives oceans away and the girl has to deal with a fish strike! Fred is not exactly the stereotyped mermaid, either. [...]
Harper Collins, Sydney 2005 Wild Lavender is a big book – which is great as you really get the chance to know the characters and feel involved in their lives. It covers nearly twenty years of the life of a French woman Simone Fleurier. Her life covers living on a quiet farm and in cities, [...]
Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest 2007 What would you do if the person you loved had low quality of life and little prospect of improvement or even survival? Even if you are adamant you know the answer, Picoult will make you consider your choices. As always, Picoult’s book covers a number of characters and sub-stories [...]
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest 2007 Nineteen minutes is one of those books that I both love and hate. And one I found hard to put down, even when I had finished it As a mother, I don’t want to know about school shootings or imagine it happening in my [...]
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne Atria Books/Beyond Words, New York, 2006 ISBN-10: 1582701709 With all the buzz about The Secret DVD and book, I already had an idea of what The Secret would be about. I knew it was about being positive and using the mind to create our own lives. I figured that reading [...]
Ice Station by Matthew Reilly Pan Macmillan, Sydney 1998 Talk about action packed! This is a thick book (611 pages) but most of the story covers little more than 24 hours! A crack unit of marines happens to be close to Antarctica when their is a distress call from an American base. So Shane Schofield [...]
Dark Victory by David Marr & Marian Wilkinson Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2004 Marr and Wilkinson have brought to light the events surrounding the Australian Government’s refusal to accept illegal immigrants, or boat people, in 2001. During Operation Relex, as it was called, there was a tight control of media coverage so the [...]