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Review: The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers, by Kerri Turner

January 19, 2019 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers, by Kerri Turner

The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers, by Kerri Turner, is a wonderful and thoroughly enjoyable story to read. I’m a sucker for anything set in Russia. I devoured Paullina Simons’ The Bronze Horseman series, with Tatiana and Alexander and have read my way through plenty of Russian literature, including Anna Karenina and Crime and […]

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Review: The Helpline, by Katherine Collette

December 31, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

The Helpline by Katherine Collette

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 […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Australian Women Writers Challenge, book reviews, contemporary fiction, humour, light reads

Book review: Ghosted, by Rosie Walsh

June 12, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Book review: The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

May 5, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer 2 Comments

The Guernsey Literary and 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 […]

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Book review: You Wish, by Lia Weston

April 11, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Australian Women Writers Challenge, book reviews, contemporary fiction, humour, light reads

Book review: The Paris Seamstress, by Natasha Lester

March 26, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer 2 Comments

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 […]

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