“The Shot” by Naima Brown

Naima has spent over a decade working in news, current affairs and documentary – save for her brief stint in reality TV, which inspired her brand-new novel “The Shot”. “The Shot” follows Mara Bolt – the queen of reality TV who will do ANYTHING for ratings. When she meets Kristy Shaw, Mara is certain she’s […]

Franc.World – June Reviews

“Monster Island” by George Ivanoff  Jurassic Park meets Stranger Things in a story where the creatures are out of this world! After following his mum to her top-secret new job, Bernie finds himself on a mysterious remote island inside the Bass Strait Triangle. The scientists working there call it Monster Island, and Bernie soon discovers […]

“Kookaburra Cottage” by Maya Linnell

Bestselling rural fiction author, Maya Linnell, gathers inspiration from her rural upbringing and the small communities she has always lived in and loved. Kookaburra Cottage is her fifth novel, following Paperbark Hill, Magpie’s Bend, Bottlebrush Creek and Wildflower Ridge. A former country journalist and radio host, Maya also blogs for Romance Writers Australia, loves baking up a storm, tending to her rambling garden […]

“Yellowface” – Rebecca Kuang

Rebecca F. Kuang is the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, and as of recently “Yellowface.”  ‘Yellowface’ follows Athena and Juniper. Athena Liu is a literary darling. Juniper Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, Juniper steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes […]