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 ...
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 ...
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 , 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Jul 2024
Swift River is both a coming-of-age story and a generational saga. It’s also a compelling take on the ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Open Access , Jul 2024
Lady Augusta Gresham, daughter of Francis, Earl of Greshamsbury, and his wife, Arabella, a former supermodel from ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Open Access , Jul 2024
Aaron is barely out of adolescence, lives rough in Melbourne and is addicted to heroin. He needs a secure place to ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Open Access , Jul 2024
In 1856, New York midwife Carrie Ballentyne is seeking adventure. She accepts a nursing position with a Santa Fe ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Open Access , Jul 2024
Jimmy, in Grade 5 of primary school, lives in the fictional town of Mittigunda, halfway between Sydney and ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Open Access , Jul 2024
Susanna is a 20-year-old talented Jewish-Australian violinist who has been awarded a scholarship to study at the ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Open Access , Jun 2024
The opening of the dystopian Briefly Very Beautiful sucked me in, as Cass and other families living in The City ...
Modern & Contemporary , Romance , Jun 2024
Just One Taste is romantic comedy perfection. It’s filled with sizzling enemies to lover’s chemistry, captivating ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Open Access , Jun 2024
At the edge of the Wimmera – the desert-like region in western Victoria – is the fictional town of Gatyekarr, or ...
Fiction , Good Reading Magazine , Latest Reviews , Modern & Contemporary , Jun 2024
As a photographer, Kirsty Iltners is well qualified to write this intriguing story, conceptualised around the ...
Crime / Thrillers , Fiction , Modern & Contemporary , Open Access , Jun 2024
Winter’s early life in Yorkshire is upended after her mother’s death. Her father has a complete breakdown and is ...