The Helpline, by Katherine Collette is plain good fun. Set in a local council in one of Melbourne’s bayside surbubs, Geraldine is the unwilling newest employee on the Senior Citizen’s Helpline. It irritates her that some of the local residents seem to be calling just for a chat. It’s so… inefficient. The Helpline is somewhere […]
light reads
Book review: Ghosted, by Rosie Walsh
Ghosted, by Rosie Walsh, is one of those rare gems of a book that is set in the modern world, involves a love story about two people over the age of 30 and is brilliantly written. It also comes with a killer twist. ‘Ghosted’ is a term that has been coined in recent years for […]
Book review: The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
I’d heard so many good things about The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society. My mum read it the week before I did and rushed over to tell me all the best anecdotes from the first 50 pages or so. Now that I’ve finished it, I have an overwhelming desire to tell you all the […]
Book review: You Wish, by Lia Weston
What if you could erase your ex from your history entirely? What if you could go back and change that hideous choice of wedding dress you made 30 years ago? Or watch your deceased child grow into adulthood, picture by picture? You wish. Enter IF, the Melbourne-based creative team, headed by Tom Lash, which can […]
Book review: The Paris Seamstress, by Natasha Lester
Natasha Lester writes romance the way it should be written – fierce and passionate with strong men and, most importantly, strong and independent women. Her third historical fiction novel, The Paris Seamstress, is the story of Estella Bisette – forced to flee France in 1940 with little more than her sewing machine and a dream of […]
Book review: Life After Coffee, by Virginia Franken
It’s got ‘Coffee’ in the title, it’s about a nowhere-near-perfect mother and it’s funny. That was enough to convince me to open Life After Coffee, the debut novel from Virginia Franken. After the first few paragraphs I had several problems: I couldn’t put it down I drove everyone around me nuts by reading them out […]
