Reviews: A - Z (Title)

A

Accident (The) - Katie McMahon 
Accident (The) - Fiona Lowe
Ace of Shades  - Amanda Foody (spotlight)
Affacombe Affair (The) - Elizabeth Lemarchand
Afloat in Venice - Tina Wilson
After the Flood - Dave Warner 
Age of Light (The) - Whitney Scharer
Akin - Emma Donoghue  
All the Missing Girls - Megan Miranda
All You Took From Me - Lisa Kenway
Allegra in Three Parts  - Suzanne Daniel
Among the Grey Gums - Paula J Beavan
An Alice Girl  - Tanya Heaslip
An Ordinary Life - Amanda Prowse
An Unusual Boy - Fiona Higgins
Animalphabet  - Julia Donaldson
Another You  - Jane Cable
Apples Never Fall - Liane Moriarty 
Art of Friendship (The) - Lisa Ireland
Artisan Heart (The)  - Dean Mayes 
As Swallows Fly - L. P. McMahon
Assassins Hunted - Rachel Amphlett
At the End of the Day - Liz Bryski



B

Baby  - Annaleese Jochems
Back on Track - Tricia Stringer
Bad Habits - Sarah Evans
Banksia House Breakout (The) - James Roxburgh 
Beacon (The) - P.A. Thomas
Becoming Beth - Meredith Appleyard
Becoming Mrs Mulberry - Jackie French
Before I Go to Sleep - S.J. Watson
Before I Let You Go  - Kelly Rimmer
Better Luck Next Time - Kate Hilton
Big Book of Baby Knits - Marie Claire
Birds of a Feather - Tricia Stringer
Black Ice - Becca Fitzpatrick
Blame - Nicole Trope
Blood & Ink - Brett Adams
Blood Will Have Blood - Thomas H Carry
Bloodstone Key (The)  - Jenni Boyd 
Blue Gum Camp (The) - Leonie Kelsall
Blue Moon  - Lee Child
Blue Wren - Bron Bateman
Bluebird - Malcolm Knox 
Body of Lies - Sarah Bailey
Bone Code (The) - Kathy Reichs
Bone Ranger (The) - Louisa Bennett (LA Larkin)
Book Ninja (The)  - Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus 
Bookshops & Bonedust - Travis Baldree
Border (The)  - Steve Schafer
Boundary Fence (The)  - Alissa Callen
Bridge of Clay  - Markus Zusak
Brief (The)  - Simon Michael
Brightest Star (The) - Emma Harcourt
Bring Him Home - Nicole Trope 
Broad River Station - Fleur McDonald
Buckham's Bombers - Mark Baker
Buckley's Chance  - Garry Linnell
Burning Fields  - Alli Sinclair (spotlight)
Bushranger's Wife (The) - Cheryl Adnams 
Butterflies in Me - Denisha Seals
Butterfly Room (The)  - Lucinda Riley


C

Can't Buy Me Love - Jane Lovering
Cassandra's Secret  - Frances Garrood
Cat Who Saved Books (The) - Sosuke Natsukawa
Catch Us the Foxes - Nicola West
Chain (The)  - Adrian McKinty
Changing Room (The) - Belinda Cranston
Charlotte Pass - Lee Christine
Checklist Book (The) - Alexandra Franzen
Chimera Island - Martin Roy Hill
Christians - Greg Sheridan 
Christmas Card Murders (The)  - Anthony Litton
Christmas Lights (The)  - Karen Swan
Christmas Party (The)  - Karen Swan
Christmas with the Boss  - Annie Seaton
Cinema at Starlight Creek (The)  - Alli Sinclair 
Cleanskin (The) - Laura Bloom
Close to Home - Janet Gover
Cobra Queen (The)  - Tara Moss
Coconut Rebellion (The)  - Mark Stary
Codebreakers (The) - Alli Sinclair 
Codename Parsifal - Martin Roy Hill
Cold Season (A) - Matthew Hooper
Come Home Ella - Chelsea Davies
Company Ink - E. L. Lewis 
Country Girl (The)  - Cathryn Hein 
Crackenback - Lee Christine 
Crocodile Tears - Alan Carter 
Crows Nest - Nikki Mottram
Curlew's Eye (The) - Karen Manton


D 

Dark Lake (The)  - Sarah Bailey    
Dark Tides - Philippa Gregory 
Darkness & Grace by Kathryn Schleich 
Dash and Nikki - Anthony C. Delauney
Dawnlands - Philippa Gregory
Daylight - David Baldacci 
Dead Horse Gap - Lee Christine
Dead Lions - Mick Herron
Death in the Ladies' Goddess Club  - Julian Leatherdale
Death of an Old Girl  - Elizabeth Lemarchand
Deathly Wind  - Keith Moray
Deception Creek - Fleur McDonald 
Deep in the Forest - Erina Reddan
Deja Vu - Bobby Twidale 
Devil's Lair - Sarah Barrie
Devour - LA Larkin
Diamond Rings are Deadly Things  - Rachelle J Christensen
Diemen Alexander (The) - Marie Heitz
Digging Up Dirt - Pamela Hart
Dinosaur Flap - Jeanne Willis & Peter Curtis
Dinosaur Roar!  - Paul Strickland &Henrietta Strickland
Dinosaur Snap - Jeanne Willis & Peter Curtis 
Dinosaur Whack, Whizz , Roar & Munch - Jeanne Willis & Peter Curtis
Dirt Town - Hayley Scrivenor 
Doll Factory (The) - Elizabeth Macneal
Don't Drink the Pink  - BCR Fegan
Don't Make a Fuss - Wendy Davis
Doom Creek - Alan Carter 
Double Negative - Susan Marshall
Downstream - Annika Johansson
Dr Bennett's Babies - Fiona McArthur
Dragon of the Month Club (The)  - Iain Reading 
Dream Daughter (The)  - Diane Chamberlain
Dreaming by Starlight - Siobhan Curham
Dressed by Iris - Mary-Anne O'Connor
Dressing the Dearloves  - Kelly Doust
Drowning - T.J. Newman
Dry (The) - Jane Harper
Dunkirk - LC Ewan Butler

 

E

Earning It - E.F. Dodd
Eighth Wonder (The) - Tania Farrelly
Emerald Tablet (The) - Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
Esme's Gift  - Elizabeth Foster
Esme's Wish  - Elizabeth Foster
Esther's Children - Caroline Beecham
Euphoria Kids  - Alison Evans
Everlasting Sunday (The)  - Robert Lukins
Every Note Played   - Lisa Genova (spotlight)
Ex (The)  - Nicola Moriarty
Exit Through the Gift Shop - Maryam Masters
Exit West  - Mohsin Hamid
Eyes of Tamburah (The)  - Maria V. Snyder


F

Falling - T. J. Newman
False Hope - Lynne Lee
Family Trust - Peter Wilson
Fat, Fifty & Fu*ked - Geoffrey McGeachin
Feathers - Karen Hendriks
Feel Me Fall  - James Morris
Find Them Dead - Peter James
Finding Eadie - Caroline Beecham
Fists of the Father (The) - Daniel Tamone
Flames Over Norway - Robert Jackson
Flight Risk  - Michael McGuire
Fool Me Once  - Karly Lane
For Once in My Life - Karly Lane
Force of Nature - Jane Harper
Fortune's Son - Jennifer Scoullar
Fossil Hunter (The) - Tea Cooper 
Four Dogs Missing - Rhys Gard
Free - Meg Keneally
French Gift (The) - Kirsty Manning
Frog Who Was Blue (The)  - Faiz Kermani



G

Gaslight Stalker (The) - David Field (spotlight)
Gazelle in the Shadows  - Michelle Peach
Ghost Cities - Siang Lu
Ghost of Gracie Flynn (The) - Joanna Morrison
Gift of Diamonds - Roberta Seret 
Girl in the Mirror (The) - Rose Carlyle
Girl in the Painting (The)  - Tea Cooper 
Girl in the Rearview Mirror - Kelsey Rae Dimberg
Girl She Was (The) - Rebecca Freeborn
Girls (The) - Chloe Higgins
Giver of Stars (The)  - Jojo Moyes
Glovemaker (The)  - Ann Weisgarber
Go-Away Bird (The)  - Julia Donaldson
Go Away Glob  - Sarah Elliott Smyth
Goal!!! - Lydia Williams 
Goldminer's Sister (The) - Alison Stuart
Gone To Ground - Bronwyn Hall
Gone to the Woods - Gary Paulsen 
Good Teacher (The) - Petronella McGovern
Gosling Girl (The) - Jacqueline Roy
Grace & Marigold - Mira Robertson
Grand Tour (The) - Olivia Wearne
Grandparents - Michael Carr-Gregg
Gravity is the Thing  - Jaclyn Moriarty
Great Divide (The) L.J.M. Owen
Greek Escape (The)  - Karen Swan
Grown Ups - Marian Keyes
Gruffalo's Child (The)  - Julia Donaldson
Guinevere: At the Dawn of Legend  - Cheryl Carpinello


H

Happy Hour - Jacquie Byron 
Head for the Hills - Tricia Stringer
Heart of the Cross - Emily Madden
Helpless - Marianne Marsh
Her Outback Cowboy  - Annie Seaton
Her Outback Surprise  - Annie Seaton
Her Time to Shine - Fiona McCallum
Heron's Cry (The) - Ann Cleeves
Hidden Beach (The)  - Karen Swan
Hidden Girl (The) - Lucinda Riley
Hive  - A.J. Betts
Home At Last  - Meredith Appleyard
Home Fires  - Fiona Lowe
Home Like Ours (A) - Fiona Lowe 
Honourable Thief (The)  - Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
Hope Flower (The) - Joy Dettman 
House on Endless Waters  - Emuna Elon
How it Feels to Float  - Helena Fox
How to Be Remembered - Michael Thompson
How to Make a Life - Florence Reiss Kraut 
Hug Everyone You Know  - Antoinette Truglio Martin
Hush (The) - Sara Foster


I

I Belong to No One - Gwen Wilson
I Hate Nothing About You - Ella Sparkle
I Know An Old Lady - Edward Miller
I Know Who You Are  - Alice Feeney 
I Love My Dad Because  - Petra James    
I Love My Mum Because  - Petra James
I Thought I Knew You - Penny Hancock
I Will Miss You Tomorrow  - Heine Bakkeid
If Kisses Cured Cancer - T.S. Hawken (spotlight) 
Ill Will - Michael Stewart (spotlight)
In a Great Southern Land  - Mary-Anne O'Connor
In a New York Minute - Kate Spencer
In Search of a Name - Marjolijn van Heemstra 
Inkflower - Suzy Zail
Into the Night - Fleur McDonald
Into the Night - Sarah bailey
Invention of Wings (The)  - Sue Monk Kidd
Italian Marriage (The) - Jenna Lo Bianco 
It's Probably You - Jayne Denker



J

Jacob's Toys  - Claudia Woods
Jade Lily (The)  - Kirsty Manning
Jam Queens (The) - Josephine Moon
Jewish Girl in Paris (A) - Melanie Levensohn
Jorie and the Gold Key - A.H.Richardson
Jorie and the Magic Stones - A.H.Richardson
Jorie and the River of Fire  - A.H. Richardson
Journey (The) - James Norbury
Just an Ordinary Family  - Fiona Lowe
Just Desserts  - Charlotte Ree
Just One Wish  - Rachael Johns




K

Kaikoura Rendezvous - Stephen Johnson
Keeping Up Appearances - Tricia Stringer
Khaki Town  - Judy Nunn
Kiki & Jax  - Marie Kondo
Kindness of Birds (The) - Melinda Bobis
Kingdom of Oceana (The) - Mitchell Charles
Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald (A)  - Natasha Lester
Knife & Fork  - Gita V. Reddy




L

Land Beyond the Sea (The) - Sharon Penman 
Last Chance in Paris - Lynda Marron
Last of the Apple Blossom (The) - Mary-Lou Stephens 
Last Line (The) - Stephen Ronson
Last Paradise (The)  - Di Morrissey
Last Straw (The)  - Ed Duncan
Last Summer (The) - Karen Swan
Last Truehart (The) - Darry Fraser 
Leaves (The) - Jacqueline Rule
Left You Dead - Peter James
Lenny's Book of Everything  - Karen Foxlee  
Less You Know  - Rowena Holloway
Letters From Berlin - Tania Blanchard 
Liars - James O'Loghlin
Librarian of Auschwitz (The)  - Antonio Iturbe
Life Before  - Carmel Reilly
Life of Her Own (A)  - Fiona McCallum
Lily Harford's Last Request - Joanna Buckley
Little Gods  - Jenny Ackland (spotlight)
Little Secrets - Anna Snoekstra
Lolly Shop (The) - L B E Hackney
Lonely Girl  - Lynne Vincent Mccarthy
Long Road Home (The)  - Fiona McCallum
Long Road to Mercy  - David Baldacci
Long Shadow (The) - Anne Buist
Long Tail of Trauma (The) - Elizabeth Wilcox
Look at Me - Mareike Krugel
Look Both Ways - Linwood Barclay
Lost but Found  - Peter Sharp
Lost Girls (The)  - Jennifer Spence
Lost Lover (The) - Karen Swan
Lost Valley (The)  - Jennifer Scoullar
Louis & Louise  - Julie Cohen
Love & Rome - Jenna Lo Bianco
Love, in Theory - Elodie Cheesman 
Love Letter to Paris (A) - Rebecca Raisin
Love Never Chose Me - Rosanna M.I.
Love Objects - Emily Maguire
Lovely and Terrible Thing (A)  - Chris Womersley
Lovestruck  - Bronwyn Sell
Loving Lizzie March - Susannah Hardy
Lucky's - Andrew Pippos
Lying and Dying  - Graham Brack



M

Maggie's Going Nowhere  - Rose Hartley
Magpie's Sister (The) - Kerri Turner
Mammoth - Chris Flynn
Man of Honour (A) - Simon Smith
Manuscript (The) - Lucy Bloom 
Medusa Situation (The) - Gabiann Marin
Memories of May - Juliet Madison
Mercy - David Baldacci
Mia - Fiona McArthur 
Midwife in the Jungle  - Fiona McArthur
Minute to Midnight (A)  - David Baldacci 
Mistake (The) - Katie McMahon 
Misty - Fiona McArthur 
Mole Creek - James Dunbar
Money Club (The) - Fiona Lowe
Monsoon Summer - Julia Gregson  
Montana -Fiona McArthur
Mother-in-Law (The)  - Sally Hepworth
Mr Right Now  - Karly Lane
Mum & Dad - Joanna Trollope
Mural - Stephen Downes
Murder by Milkshake - Elizabeth Maria Naranjo 
Murder in Punch Lane - Jane Sullivan
Murder Most Fancy - Kellie McCourt 
Murmurations  - Carol Lefevre
My Best Friend's Murder - Polly Phillips
My Dark Vanessa  - Kate Elizabeth Russell
My Life For Yours - Vanessa Carnevale 
My Polar Dream  - Jade Hameister



N

Nearly Normal Family (A)  - M. T. Edvardsson 
Neighbour (The)  - Fiona Cummins 
Next Girl (The) - Pip Drysdale 
Night Caller (The)  - David Field 
Night Letters (The) - Denise Leith
Night Whistler (The) - Greg Woodland  
Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty
No Autographs, Please! - Katherine Wiles
Nurses' War (The) - Victoria Purman


O

O2 - Nic D'Alessandro 
Oblivion - Patrick Holland
On the Same Page  - Penelope Janu
Once Burnt, Twice Shy - Karly Lane
One (The)  - Kaneana May
One Good Thing - Alexandra Potter
One More Time - Mandy Magro
One of Us - Kylie Kaden 
Order of Time (The) - Scott P Southall 
Our Stop  - Laura Jane Williams
Out of Breath - Anna Snoekstra
Outrider - Mark Wales


P

P.I. Penguin Series - Bec J Smith 
Paris Affair (The) - Pip Drysdale
Paris Collaborator (The) - A. W. Hammond
Paris Model (The)  - Alexandra Joel
Paris Mystery (The) - Kirsty Manning
Paris Seamstress (The) - Natasha Lester  
Perfect Family (The) - Robyn Harding 
Picture You Dead - Peter James
Place to Remember (A) - Jenn J McLeod (spotlight)
Playground Zero - Sarah Relyea 
Pocket Wife (The) - Susan Crawford
Polar Melt  - Martin Roy Hill 
Pony - R. J. Palacio 
Prey  - L. A. Larkin
Prize Catch - Alan Carter
Proxy Bride (The) - Zoe Boccabella

 
Q

 
R 

Rattlesnake Road - Amanda McKinney
Reaching Through Time - Shauna Bostock
Real Tigers - Mick Herron 
Reasonable Doubt - Dr Xanthe Mallett   
Recipe for Family (A) - Tori Haschka
Red Can Origami  - Madelaine Dickie 
Red Dirt Country  - Fleur McDonald
Red Dust - Fleur McDonald 
Redemption - Tracie Griffith 
Renia's Diary  - Renia Spiegel
Retribution - Sarah Barrie
Return to Roseglen  - Helene Young (spotlight)
Reunion (The) - Polly Phillips
Rhythm of the Beach (The) - Russell Irving
Rico Stays - Ed Duncan
Riptides  - Kirsten Alexander
Rising Dust - Fleur McDonald 
River Gum Cottage (The) - Leonie Kelsall
Riviera House (The) - Natasha Lester
Roadmap of Loss (The) - Liam Murphy
Rogue  - A.J. Betts
Rosie Leads the Way - Renee Irving Lee 
Royals - Tegan Bennett Daylight
Ruin of Kings (The)  - Jenn Lyons

 
S

Safe Place (The) - L.A. Larkin
Saint X  - Alexis Schaitkin
Salvation Station  - Kathryn Schleich
Sarah Evans - Bernice Barry
Saving Missy  - Beth Morrey
Saying Yes - Ella Sparkle 
Sawdust House (The) - David Whish-Wilson
School (The) - Brendan James Murray 
Scrublands  - Chris Hammer
Sea Life - Alphaprints - Roger Priddy
Seachangers (The) - Meredith Appleyard
Searching for Seashells  - Kerry Rosser
Second Fleet Baby - Nadia Rhook
Secret Path (The) - Karen Swan
Secrets She Keeps (The)  - Michael Robotham
Seraphina Does Everything  - Melissa Gratias
Shadow City - Natalie Conyer
Shadow Lives - Neil A White
Shearer's Wife (The) - Fleur McDonald 
Shelter From the Storm - Penelope Janu
Shock Waves - Fleur McDonald
Signatory (The) - Stuart Black
Simply Lies - David Baldacci
Single Lifeline (A) - Heidi Coupland
Six Minutes  - Petronella McGovern 
Sixty Seconds  - Jesse Blackadder
Skylark's Secret (The) - Fiona Valpy 
Sleepless in Stringybark Bay - Susan Duncan  
Snotlings - Tarryn Mallick
Snowy Mountains Promise - Alissa Callen
Snowy Mountains Dawn - Alissa Callen
Soldiers - Tom Remiger
Someone Else's Bucket List - Amy T. Matthews
Something Like This - Karly Lane
Something to Hide - Fleur McDonald
Soulmate (The) - Sally Hepworth
Spanish Promise (The)  - Karen Swan
Spiral (The) - Iain Ryan
Stolen Hours (The) - Karen Swan
Strangers We Know (The)  - Pip Drysdale
Such a Fun Age  - Kiley Reid
Summer at Kangaroo Ridge - Nicole Hurley-Moore
Summer of Serenity - Nicola Marsh
Summer Place (The) - Janette Paul
Sun Walks Down (The) - Fiona McFarlane 
Sunday Story Club (The) - Doris Brett & Kerry Cue
Sunrise Over Mercy Court - Fiona McCallum
Surprise Party (The) - Julia Crouch
Symphony for the Man  - Sarah Brill


T

Table for Eight  - Tricia Stringer 
Take Me Home - Karly Lane
Taken - Dinuka McKenzie
Taking Tom Murray Home  - Tim Slee 
Ten Terrible Dinosaurs  - Paul Strickland  
There's a Zoo in My Poo - Prof Felice Jacka 
Those Girls - Pamela Rushby
Those Hamilton Sisters - Averil Kenny
Those Three Words  - Christine Bauer
Tidelands  - Philippa Gregory 
Till Daph Do Us Part - Phillipa Nefri Clark 
Tilt (The) - Chris Hammer
Time After Time - Karly Lane
Toad Who Loved Tea (The)  - Faiz Kermani
Together by Christmas - Karen Swan
Tower (The) - Carol Lefevre 
Traffic - Robin Gregory
Treehouse Joke Book (The)  - Andy Griffiths
Trick of the Light - Fiona McCallum
Twenty-Six Letters - Charlotte Nash
Twist of Fate - Karly Lane




U

Unbreakables (The) - Lisa Barr
Undefendable - Sulari Gentill
Understudy (The) - Julie Bennett
Unforgiven - Sarah Barrie 
Upriver - Martin Roy Hill

 
V

Vendetta - Sarah Barrie 
Venice Hotel (The) - Tess Woods
Voices in the Dark - Fleur McDonald

W

Wallaby Lane - Maya Linnell
Wanted (The)  - Robert Crais  
War Bride (The) - Pamela Hart  
Wartime Vet (The) - Ellie Curzon
Wasp Season - Jennifer Scoullar  
Wattle Seed Inn (The) - Leonie Kelsall 
Way from Here (The) - Jane Cockram
Way it is Now (The) - Garry Disher
Weave a Murderous Web - Anne Rothman-Hicks
Weekend (The) - Charlotte Wood
What Happens at Christmas  - Evonne Wareham
What is Left Over After - Natasha Lester
Where Dragonflies Hover - AnneMarie Brear
Where's My Dinosaur - Ashling Kwok 
Where the Dead Go - Sarah Bailey
White Roses in Winter - Barbara Meyers
Who Sleuthed It? - Various 
Why Do Birds Do That? - Dr Grainne Cleary
Wild and Crazy Guys - Nick De Semlyen
Wild Fire  - Ann Cleeves
Willow Tree Wharf (The) - Léonie Kelsall
Windy Season (The) - Sam Carmody
Wish You Were Here - Sheridan Jobbins
Wish You Were Here - Jodi Picoult
Without a Doubt  - Fleur McDonald
Wolf Hour (The)  - Sarah Myles
Woman's Work (A) - Victoria Purman
Women's Doc (The) - Caroline De Costa
Women's Pages (The) - Victoria Purman 
Work Wives (The) - Rachael Johns 
Wreck (The) - Meg Keneally
Wrong Callahan (The) - Karly Lane


X

Y

Year of the Farmer (The)  - Rosalie Ham
Yes, Chef - Waitlyn Andrews
You Me Her - Sue Watson
You Wish  - Lia Weston
Youngest Son (The) - John Byrnes



Z


#

365 Days of Happiness - Jacqueline Pirtle
138 Dates - Rebekah Campbell 
6:20 Man (The) - David Baldacci

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