Category: Fiction

I’d like to start by congratulating the designers who managed (in my opinion) to capture the feel of summer on the cover. Really, a job well done.  Katy and her mom, Carol, have always been close. Carol is her go-to on everything from what to buy and which hotels to book. Carol has always been…

For many, Alaska is the last frontier, but for Josie and her two kids it’s the first chance to be free, to explore, to heal. Escaping from a series of emotionally damaging events, Josie takes Paul (age 8) and Anna (age 5) on a spur of the moment adventure into Alaska in a recreational vehicle…

If you didn’t think that kindergarten politics could be life or death, then you’ve clearly never visited the Pirriwee primary school. This year, the annual trivia fundraiser night ends with ambulances and an accident. Or was it? As an investigation ensues, it becomes apparent that the children at Pirriwee aren’t the only ones not telling…

Daniel lives in Athens, Georgia. He works as a social media manager for a regional airline, mainly dealing with irate football fans on game weekends. He has a loving mother who gives him his space and a best friend who comes over daily. He’s also in a wheelchair. Daniel has a good routine going, a routine that…

Clio Campbell is a force to be reckoned with. Her curly red hair makes a visual impact on her audience and her lilting voice, while beautiful in a song, carries indignant vitriol when campaigning for the causes she cares about. And then, days before her 51st birthday, it all stops. Scabby Queen unpacks the story of Clio’s…

Motherwell, for readers not in Scotland, is a town outside of Glasgow that was structured around the steel and iron industry until the late-80s/90s when strikes and the closure of Ravenscraig Steelworks caused massive unemployment. The late Deborah Orr’s memoir is a reflective account of the ways the town shaped her parents’ lives and, in…

Before we dive into this, I want to say how much I enjoyed Kate Quinn’s other book, The Rose Code, and it’s because of how much I loved it that I sought out her other work and stumbled upon The Diamond Eye. Now to the review. Mila Pavlinchenko is a young mother and a history…

Happy endings were too much for some people, false and cheap,but hope – hope was honest. Hope was good. If you’re like me, you don’t look at the images above and think “time travel”, but you know what they say about judging a book by its cover… Alice is turning 40 and dealing with all…

For those of you thinking the name Colleen Hoover rings a bell, she’s the author of the bestselling book, It Ends With Us, which I would file under “romance”, “chick lit” etc. I promise I’m not trying to be too cool for school when I say I didn’t understand the hype and felt the book was…

It is hard to look into someone’s eyes. Even when you love them, it is difficult to sustain it,for the sense of being seen through. In some way, found out. It’s not often that I read a library book and enjoy it enough that I want my own copy, but I’m surprised and delighted to…