by Sue Reid | Sep 12, 2024 | Book Reviews
“A refreshing, nostalgic whodunit writing style set in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.” Fictional book-store owners, Garth and Eloise Sherlock provide a barrel of laughs as they reference familiar tasks and happenings in book store life until a mysterious...
by Sue Reid | Sep 12, 2024 | Book Reviews
Set on the fictional South Atlantic Island, Tuga de Oro, a vibrant array of characters deliver colourful plots to provide pure escapism amongst the weighty tomes on my to-be-read stacks. Veterinarian researcher and devout introvert Charlotte Walker heads to ‘the...
by Sue Reid | Jul 23, 2024 | Book Reviews
“If you could take a snapshot of current real-life New Zealand the The Call captures in in all its shades…” Not since I read Fiona Sussman’s debut novel The Last Time We spoke (2017) have I been able to read a book that is so honest and...
by Sue Reid | Jul 23, 2024 | Book Reviews
“On reading the last page my curiosity piqued with more questions than answers in this deeply moving account of one family’s fight to freely live in safety. I say more questions than answers because I sense the author was unable to divulge the true extent...
by Sue Reid | Jul 23, 2024 | Book Reviews
“Amma is like a forced look into a mirror to understand how silence can harm, unspoken words can breed misunderstanding and an inability to reassure the next generation can fester brokenness.” Three generations – Josephina, Sithara then Annie. From...
