I love to read Australian historical fiction and two of my absolute favourite books in this genre are Alison Stuart’s Maiden Creek books, The Postmistress and The Goldminer’s Sister. I knew there was a third book coming so I’ve been keeping an eye out and when The Homecoming was announced for release this month it […]
This is a “currently reading” post with a difference today – I love seeing what kids are reading, so I thought it would be fun to share what my almost 9yr old has brought home from the library this week. We saw SIX The Musical when it was here in Canberra and she has been […]
I love reading historical fiction set in Australia, and had read and enjoyed a couple of Tea Cooper’s novels in the past, so I was definitely keen to get my hands and eyes on The Cartographer’s Secret. This one is backlist now – Cooper’s The Fossil Hunter came out in 2021, and The Butterfly Collector […]
Painting class is back! If you’ve been around a while you might remember that I started going to a watercolour class about a year ago. Our second term was cut short by a covid lockdown, and last week classes finally started again. I find it so helpful to have that time set aside where I […]
Synopsis Paris, 1939 While working at the Louvre, Eliane Dufort falls for talented painter Xavier. But when the Nazis occupy the city, Xavier leaves for England and Eliane must send her sisters to the country. Broken-hearted, she finds herself working with the mysterious Rose Valland on a dangerous secret mission for the French Resistance: to […]
It’s 1858, and there are two queens on the throne. Victoria reigns over London, the biggest city the world has ever known. But London has a secret shadow city, called Donlon, where another queen, the Green Witch, rules her own domain – time. London is in turmoil. The Thames is at the height of the […]