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...
by Sue Reid | Sep 12, 2024 | Book Reviews
“A powerful, confronting narrative that causes your blood to pulse with rage…A strong and timely novel from Charity Norman – non-apologetic.” Raw and brutal in delivery from dire times we have recently emerged from – the covid years. You...
by Sue Reid | Sep 12, 2024 | Book Reviews
“An epic literary feast across centuries capturing the essence of the Muranese glass makers. A twist exists throughout the exquisite narrative – a stone that skips from 1486 to modern day. It can be a risky, clunky tool when you use ‘time...
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...
