Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Aug 2024
Alison Edwards’ debut novel is a story of fate, where two people from opposite sides of the world who, despite ...
Crime / Thrillers , Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Open Access , Jul 2024
Smoke is a story of a young woman’s strength in the face of misogyny and extensive corruption in her department in ...
Crime / Thrillers , Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Open Access , Jul 2024
Ann Cleeves takes us back 34 years to the first book in her ‘Inspector Ramsay’ series. Macmillan has reissued A ...
Crime / Thrillers , Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Jul 2024
Burn the witch. History doesn’t repeat but it often rhymes, as they say, and in Scottish author C S Robertson’s ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Modern & Contemporary , Open Access , Jul 2024
Lie With Me is most probably autobiographical. The narrator (as disclosed on the back cover of the book) is the ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Jul 2024
This story starts dramatically with the main protagonist and narrator, Brodie, trespassing and being chased up a ...
Fantasy / Sci-fi , Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Jul 2024
The story opens on Laura Sheridan, a poetry ingenue at a private, all-girl’s boarding school. She meets the ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Open Access , Jul 2024
Audrey is a people-pleaser who never receives credit for the help she gives. She’s a clever lawyer, indispensable ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Historical Fiction , Latest Reviews , Jul 2024
Tatiana (Tatty) Caldwell lives in 1860s London. She is the daughter of an odd couple: her father, a successful ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Jul 2024
Esther wakes, aware of being connected to wires, tape over her lips and eyes, hands tied down, and a tube down her ...
Crime / Thrillers , Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Open Access , Jul 2024
In this second novel in the ‘Inspector Ramsay’ series, Ann Cleeves takes us back 33 years. Alice Parry is killed ...
Crime / Thrillers , Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Jul 2024
A few years ago, king of LA crime writing Michael Connelly recommended Ivy Pochoda’s Wonder Valley, a ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Open Access , Jul 2024
After loving Mellor’s debut, Cleopatra & Frankenstein, I was eager to tuck into her new book, Blue Sisters. ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Jul 2024
At the beginning of Hurdy Gurdy a character asks, ‘Why is the world so bad … why isn’t it more fun?’
While ...
Crime / Thrillers , Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Open Access , Jul 2024
Before Vera, before Jimmy Perez, and even before Inspector Ramsay, Ann Cleeves had Molly and George Palmer-Jones ...
Crime / Thrillers , Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Open Access , Jul 2024
Hugely popular Australian true crime podcaster Sloane Abbott is on a high after winning a prestigious award and ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Jul 2024
Matthieson’s debut novel gives an insightful look into the life of a young Australian woman, Clare. Growing up in ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Jul 2024
Fay is an academic and translator who specialises in Modern Taiwanese-to-English literary translations. For all ...
Crime / Thrillers , Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Jul 2024
This is the second book in the series for child protection worker, Dana Gibson. A missing boy, a hit-and-run, and ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Historical Fiction , Latest Reviews , Jul 2024
Born into poverty, Molly Thistle possesses a spirited character and sense awareness from the outset. She is ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Jul 2024
After the death of her husband, now single mum Hannah and her son, Leo, arrive in Lyrebird, homeless. Hannah is ...