by Sue Reid | Nov 25, 2024 | Book Reviews
“If you love well-researched, credible historical drama, then you can’t go past Auckland-based author Olivia Spooner. Meet Addy and Margot, in World War Two service in the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps AKA – The Tuis.” A circle of Kiwi...
by Sue Reid | Nov 25, 2024 | Book Reviews
“An extraordinary life and her rise through politics in both Britain and USA…all within the shadows. Her life’s work cannot be simply put in a box but author Sonia Purnell comes the closest of all biographies to give us a thorough, deserving record...
by Sue Reid | Nov 25, 2024 | Book Reviews
“If someone predicted your precise time of departure from this Earth and the circumstances, would you embrace it and alter your life’s ways, patterns and experiences?” This is the foundation block for Liane Moriarty’s new novel Here One Moment....
by Sue Reid | Nov 7, 2024 | Book Reviews
“It is only now that we can read of Pippa Latour’s exceptional dedicated service as part of the Special Operations Executive and Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in World War Two. She lived her life with profound resilience and fortitude…” We...
by Sue Reid | Nov 7, 2024 | Book Reviews
“It was poignant to read of ‘older’ love – an aged love with all its imperfections and oddities. It is refreshing to embrace a narrative of real life, conflicts, irritations and quirks that just work in all the messiness of life…”...
by Sue Reid | Sep 12, 2024 | Book Reviews
“Meet Frankie…you just want her to speak out and step from the shadows that her Irish lack-of-luck life deals. From the moment I turned the first page I wanted to cheer Frankie on and sod those adults around her that played her like a pawn in the game of...
