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Because the third book in Robert Dugoni's Charles Jenkins series is coming out in February, I thought I'd better get up to speed and read the first two. The Eighth Sister is excellent Dugoni spy drama.4.5★s
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Tim Winton is one of Australia's best and most-awarded authors and an all-time favourite of mine. An Open Swimmer was his first novel, written when he was still at uni, and his writing was already magic. I had some trouble with the story.
3.5★ Link to my Open Swimmer review
Stephen King is known for his horror thrillers, but this is just a good story about a ghost, stranded in the Horror House of the amusement park, Joyland. It's just what I felt like reading!
4.5★ Link to my Joyland review
3.5 stars for
The Tribute by Aussie Author John ByronMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for
Aurora's End the final book of Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff’s Aurora trilogy. Very entertaining YA sci-fi!https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I really enjoyed Hannah Kent's new historical novel
Devotion.Partly because it's based on the actual story of how whole communities of Lutherans emigrated to the Barossa from Prussia in the nineteenth century, but also because her writing is always so poetic and she writes about relationships so well.
my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished a top notch sci-fi
by Australian author George Turnerhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finally the release day of The One Impossible Labyrinth by Matthew Reilly is here!! So finally here is my review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
What a wrap up! So stoked it was everything I hoped for and MORE. :D
Outback Secrets by Rachael Johns and my review for NetGalley and Harlequin Australia. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Was in my Halloween Happy Place with this disturbing work of brilliance: Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina BazterricaReview here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished Only Daughter by Anna SnoekstraAA set in Canberra (I needed another book set in the ACT for a challenge).A decent little thriller which I enjoyed, though I was less impressed by the publisher, Harlequin books.
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Sally Hepworth's new book
The Younger Wife was a very enjoyable read. my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sally Andrew has a way of making me drool over her Tannie Maria books. The Satanic Mechanic has heaps of new recipes, plus a murder or two.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Hannah Kent's writing is so beautiful, I found it difficult to limit myself to just a few quotes in my review of her latest novel, a wonderful tale of love and grief and steadfastness, Devotion.5★s
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My 'review' for the rather baffling House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewskihttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Honestly this is the strangest book I've encountered in my life and 3 stars doesn't seem right for it at all but I can't decide if I love or loathe it!
The sixth book in the Stephens & Mephisto series by Elly Griffiths is out soon so I thought I'd better get up to speed and read the ones I haven't yet read. #3, The Blood Card is excellent, I'm really getting into this cast.5★s
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4.5 stars for this fabulous historical fiction by an Aussie Author
Secrets My Father Kept by Rachel GivneyMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I really enjoyed the e-book version of the first in Zoë Sharp's new Blake & Byron Thrillers series, The Last Time She Died, so I grabbed the opportunity for a reprise in audio. Tamsin Kennard does a brilliant job of narrating this excellent British crime novel.5★s
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Here's my review of The Mother's Fault by Nicole Trope, a domestic thriller with plenty of twists!
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Here are my two reviews of Lemon by Kwon Yeo-Sun, an intriguing novella set in South Korea.
Print / e-book edition: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Audiobook edition: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of 
MacLeod's Manor by Peter McKelvie -- 5★ -- 29/10/2021
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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You Can Lead a Horse to Murder by Tara Meyershttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Aussie author Christian White's third novel, Wild Place is another winner: a twisty plot, credible characters and he captures the era perfectly.5★s
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Whether the title and the blurb are misleading, or whether you need to be an avid fan of Nancy Mitford (as the author clearly is), to appreciate Michelle Gable‘s fifth novel, The Bookseller's Secret, I don’t know, but this one just didn’t do it for me.3★s
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A good read, AA and a handy "U" for the locations challenge, here is my review of Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly
by Adrian McKinty 4.5★https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for Sweet Christmas Secrets: A Regency Holiday Anthology
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The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich is a warm, poignant heartstring-tugger about small town America in the 1950s. Readers will eat it up, I bet.
4★ Link to my Winston Browne review
I recently reviewed the Andy Warhol book from this series by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, and he always makes me think of Marilyn Monroe, whose rise from lonely little girl to fabulous movie star is captured here (sadly no Warhol pictures).
5★ Link to my review of Marilyn Monroe with several illustrations.
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