When you go on holiday, most often it’s just for one summer. Will that be the case for the family in David Baldacci’s novel One Summer? A Book Review From Crime to Tragi-Romance David Baldacci is best known for his thrillers and crime fiction novels. When I was looking for a light read, it therefore …
The Reach of Rome, By Alberto Angela A Book Review If you’ve been following my blogs, you’ll know I’m a history buff. This blog, ‘Roman History … that’s Actually not Boring’, was inspired by Alberto Angela’s book The Reach of Rome. You’re not fascinated by history? That’s okay. Before you relegate this blog to the …
A Book Review The Orphan Sky, by Ella Leya Leila Badalbeili is a fifteen-year-old classical pianist, a child prodigy and the darling of Soviet society in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, in 1979. Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, a country bounded by the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, is at this time in the grip of Soviet …
Gold Coast Author Sandra Sweeney tells her story of loss, resilience and survival Book Review The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami took the lives of more than a quarter of a million people within a matter of hours. Peter Beattie, who wrote the Foreword to Sandra Sweeney’s book ‘Ripples from the Wave: After the 2004 Tsunami’ …
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This book review on Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One, by French author Raphaelle Giordano (I seem to have had a bit of a focus on French authors recently!) is an interesting mix between novel and self-help book. According to the book description, it reached best-seller status in France, stayed …
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Book review When does a book sell more copies because of its title rather than its cover? When it’s called “The French Art of Not Giving a F*ck”! Fabrice Midal, the author, is a philosopher and ‘one of the world’s leading teachers of meditation’. So it may come as a surprise that a practitioner of …
Debut Queensland author Don Horsfall has done himself proud with his first novel. The Empyrean Quest is part story and part mystical personal development journey. The self-help aspect of the book, however, does not detract from the story. I recently read another self-help fiction book, Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have …
Book Review – A Town Like Alice A Town Like Alice, by Nevil Shute, is a novel I have heard about since childhood yet until recently I had not read it. Having done so, I realise what I’ve missed. The story, narrated by her solicitor, Noel Strachan, follows Jean Paget, daughter of a Scotswoman and …
A Book Review I had never heard of The Incorrigible Optimists Club or the Algerian-born writer Jean-Michel Guenassia. I came across it in the library when I was selecting books for my Christmas holiday reading. The original is written in French and I read the English translation by Euan Cameron. It is quite untrue that …
