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Blog postWe are doing well with Covid-19 here in Australia, but we still have a long way to go tuntil we can lead our normal lives. Most of us are still spending more time away from our normal relaxation pursuits that involve mingling with groups. We need distractions. And reading must be near the top of list. It certainly is for me.
With this in mind the price of many of my ebooks remains at an all time low until the end of June, and available from most online retailers. Check them -
Blog postI’m happy today as South Australia has recorded its 14th day with no new Covid-19 cases. But it is too soon to be celebrating yet. We all know how easily these good results can change. However, the Premier is cautiously optimistic that we may see ‘moderate and measured’ easing of some restrictions in the weeks ahead.
However, that doesn’t mean we can go about our days in a markedly different manner than before – not yet.
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Blog postWe seem to be doing pretty well with the Covid-19 rates falling here in Australia at the moment. As our PM is wont to say “How good is that!”
Let’s hope we can keep up the trend!! Peter and I have been very strict about self-isolating, and as the figures are falling so well, so are most others. But I fear we still have a long way to go before we can relax and say we have beaten the virus.
In the interim we are all trying to do our bit and to remain safe, sane and, if not cheer -
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Blog postIt has been a long time since I’ve done anything more than write reviews here. Last year I had a severe dose of apathy (or maybe it was just self-indulgence!) brought on by surgery at the beginning of the year. I lost my motivation to do anything with books other than read them. Although I had the beginnings of two stories in the planning stage I had no enthusiasm, or the necessary inspiration, to continue them. My characters had deserted me! I rarely participated in social media,
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Blog postThis is a BIG book, both in size, at approximately 900 pages, and in scope. It is the first in a trilogy, and I am in absolute awe at the amount of research that has gone into the writing of this book.
It is a historical drama of life and love set in Europe before, during, and after World War 1, the Russian revolution, and women’s suffrage. It is told from the differing points of view of the characters involved in this incredible time of conflict and change in the world and -
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I read this book after reading ‘Love and Other Battles’, which I found to be an amazing book. I wanted to see if Tess Woods could write another story that moved me as much as that had. While ‘Love at First Flight’ didn’t quite come up to that, it is still a book that kept my interest.
The author has a deep insight into the complexities of personal relationships, and the characters come to life on the pages as a chance meeting develops into an affair.
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Blog postI couldn’t put this book down. I just kept reading and I finished it in a single sitting.
Love and Other Battles by Tess Woods follows the lives of three generations of women in the same family. It begins in the time of the Vietnam war with Jess, a young, free-spirited hippie with strong anti- war views. She falls in love with a nasho, a conscripted soldier, who goes to serve in Vietnam.
Then we meet Jamie, her daughter, a much more conventional young woman, who wants marriage -
Blog postWhen I decided to write my first novel, ‘Inheritance’ I had been up in far north Queensland for several months, and had come to love the area. We were based at a little place called Flying Fish Point, a few kilometres east of Innisfail, bounded by the mouth of the Johnstone River on one side and the ocean on another.
A glorious place, where the forest is lush and deep green, the golden beach is long, and the cerulean sea and sky almost seem to merge.
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Blog postI always enjoy reading a Deborah Challinor book, some more than others, and this was one of the best. Kitty is the first book in the series of The Smuggler’s wife. I have read the Convict Girls series, which I loved, and I think Kitty rates up there with that.
Set in the 1840’s in New Zealand and Sydney it brings to life the early European settlement in New Zealand, and looks at the missionary families and also the Maori tribes at the time of the signing of the Waitangi treaty. It is -
Blog postThe Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley is a romantic historical novel, and is loosely based on the mythological stories of the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades, star constellation.
At 626 pages it is a big book, in every sense of the word. It is the first book in a series of six books about six young women who had all been adopted as babies and brought up by a very wealthy man, known as Pa Salt, on a beautiful estate in Geneva, Switzerland.
Each book is about one of the sisters.
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Blog postThe Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett is a fast-paced, suspenseful and engrossing spy story/ thriller, set in England in WWII, prior to the Allies invasion of Normandy. The Allies have concocted an elaborate plan to fool the Nazis into believing they will invade at a different place, namely, Calais, thereby taking them by surprise. They know that the success or failure of the landing, and probably the outcome of the war, rests on this plan being believed.
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Blog postAnother great read from Helene Young. In ‘Return to Roseglen’ she deviates from her former Romantic Suspense books to give us a story of a family undergoing challenges. Roseglen is an outback station in far north Queensland. It is a time of drought, and 93 year old Ivy Dunmore has been running the property by herself since the death of her husband Charlie. She has a son, Ken, who lives nearby, and two daughters, Felicity a nurse in Brisbane and Georgina, a pilot who is on the other side of th
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Blog postKen Follett is a master storyteller. This is a historical thriller, a spy story, set just before the outbreak of war in 1914, but it is also about the lives of key political figures and the nobility, about class, and the social order of the time, including the suffragette movement.
When Churchill charges Stephen, the earl of Walden, with the task of trying to negotiate a treaty with Russia, through his Russian wife’s nephew, Prince Orlov, he is reluctant to undertake the assignment, b -
Blog postI was in a coffee lounge having morning coffee with a group of friends when a woman I had met briefly before came up to me.
‘I’ve read two of your books now, and I really enjoyed them,’ she told me.
You might think that’s not uncommon for an author to hear, but for me it changed a pleasant outing into a special morning. To be told your work has given a reader pleasure is the ultimate satisfaction for any writer.
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Dead Heat is a fast paced and exciting romantic suspense novel, with rather more suspense than romance. I found this book hard to put down.
Jo Lockwood loves her job as a National Parks ranger in the north west of New South Wales. She loves the country side, the wildlife, and she enjoys being on her own for much of the time.
That all changes the day she finds a park site has been vandalised. As she sets about clearing up and repairing as much damage as possible, a -
Blog postThis book is set in 1900, a time of Federation in Australia, and a time when women had few rights or choices in their lives, although they were agitating for the vote.
Berylda Jones has just come home to Bathurst from university in Sydney. She is thrilled that she has been accepted into the course for Medicine next year, and is looking forward to seeing her sister Greta after her absence. However, she is dreading being back under the domination of their sadistic and brutal -
Blog postCongo Dawn is a Big Book, in size as well as scope. It is set in 1964, a time of unrest in the Congo in the aftermath of throwing off Belgian rule, when the country teetered on the brink of civil war, with fears that communism was gaining support against a Western style democracy.
Anna Emerson is a secretary in Melbourne, where she has lived with her mother since her parent’s divorce when she was seven years old. Her world is turned upside down when she receives a plane ticket to the -
Blog postI loved this book. It starts out in Lithgow and the coal mines in 1914 and covers the war years and beyond. Once I got past the old fashioned dialogue I was swept along with Francine and Daniel every emotional inch of the way. I felt the joy, the uncertainties, the fear and terror as their story unfolded.
It is a love story, but there is so much more to it than that. Kim Kelly has woven the politics, the feel of the times, and how people felt about the leadership during the dark, frig -
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This was a history lesson for me. I had heard Korean women were taken and used by the Japanese in World War Two as sex slaves, or comfort women as they called them, but I had no idea of the horrific way they were treated., or that they numbered more than 100,000. William Andrews has done his research well and.although fiction, this book is based on reality, and is a heart -rending story. The latter part of the book also looks at the political side of the division between north -
Blog postLily Malone writes in an easy, free flowing style that that makes this book so easy to read. Her characters are real, some likeable, others less so.
Remy Hanley is warm hearted, unassuming, and independent. She has cut her viticulture degree short and is working two jobs, one at Lasrey’s Wines, to help her widowed mother, and to pay off her late father’s debts.
Seth Lasrey is every inch the boss when we meet him – all business, the dutiful son who is focused on working hard toma
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A Liberated Woman: Redwoods Trilogy Book 2
Jan 19, 2014
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Kate Loveday
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An Independent Woman:Redwoods Trilogy: Book 1
Jan 13, 2014
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