Reviewsday: A book to love, just as it is.

I’m going to go ahead and assume that you’ve all seen the film Bridget Jones’s Diary. If you haven’t, go watch it now. It’s ok, I’ll wait.   Finished? Did you love it? Everyone loves it. The story of Bridget and her modern-day Pride & Prejudice adventure is hilarious, heartwarming, and captivating. Now, in case […]

Reviewsday: Hogfather

You can’t kill Anthropomorphic Personifications…or at least that’s what everyone thought. Everyone, but Mr Teatime. There is a plot afoot to kill the fat man and only Susan Sto-Helit and her handy poker can stave it off… To be fair, she doesn’t want to stave it off. She’d much prefer to be normal. But she […]

Reviewsday: Lost Brisbane

As a Brisbanite born and bred I was fascinated by this beautiful coffee table book.  To be honest, I was looking for some of my relatives at the beginning (because we all want to be related to someone famous) but the more I looked, the more I was engrossed by the history and beauty of […]

Reviewsday: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

When Rosemary Cooke was growing up she had a sister called Fern and a brother called Lowell, now she has neither. After Fern disappeared Lowell left at the first chance he got. They are a family shaped forever by the trauma of Fern’s mysterious disappearance. The novel starts in the middle of the story, when […]