-
Review: Everyone this Christmas has a Secret by Benjamin Stevenson
Benjamin Stevenson’s mystery novels about amateur sleuth and lover of Golden Age murder mysteries Ernest Cunningham have been super popular but I just hadn’t managed to pick one up yet. When I spotted Benjamin on the schedule for the ANU’s ‘Meet the Author’ event series – in conversation with lovely local author Jack Heath no less (if you ever get the chance to see Jack speak at an event please go – he’s wonderful and funny and engaging in front of adults and kids alike) – it was the perfect excuse to finally read one. The subject of the discussion was the newest release in the series, Everyone this Christmas…
-
Review: Mary Christmas by Mary-Anne O’Connor
I do love historical fiction focussed on women and by Aussie authors, so Mary-Anne O’Connor’s Mary Christmas caught my eye right away when I spotted it in a publicity catalogue a little while ago (also how could it not with that cover!). Check out the blurb from the publishers website and then my thoughts on the book below. What is Mary-Anne O’Connor’s Mary Christmas about? It’s 1909 and Mary Richards has worked hard to gain an education and become a teacher in her close-knit, picturesque village in the Cotswolds, but not everyone approves of her modern ways. When her sister Emily becomes engaged to David Christmas, it seems fate will intervene in…
You May Also Like
Nancy Business
Friday Favourites :: 9 July
Review :: Sit, Stay, Love by Amy Hutton
-
Review: I’ll be Home for Mischief by Jacqueline Frost
Yes it’s only August, but my tbr is filling up with fab new festive books coming out between now and Christmas so I thought I’d get a bit of a head start on sharing some reviews. Today I’m talking about the newest novel in Jacqueline Frost’s Christmas Tree Farm Mystery series, I’ll be Home for Mischief, which was one of the books I featured in my Christmas preview last month. Check out the synopsis from the publisher, and then read on for my thoughts! What is Jacqueline Frost’s I’ll be Home for Mischief about? It’s Christmastime in Mistletoe, Maine, and the Historical Society has launched a widespread campaign to celebrate…
-
Review :: Christmas Every Day :: Beth Moran
This week’s book for my Christmassy NetGalley-athon was Beth Moran’s Christmas Every Day. While it was a perfectly fine read there was one thing that I really didn’t expect, and that was a bit of a disappointment – this isn’t a Christmas story. It is told over the period of a year, starting at Christmas one year and finishing the next, but really it isn’t even Christmas adjacent. Now that I have that off my chest, here’s the synopsis from Goodreads When Jenny inherits her estranged grandmother’s cottage in Sherwood Forest, she has nothing to lose – no money, no job, no friends, no family to speak of, and zero…
