1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (270+ words) Former housemates Mac and Erika are homeless. Well, Erika is fine, she just has to live with her parents until she can find another rental. Mac's situation is much worse " family isn't an option and she's surfing the couches of…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (569+ words) No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there. The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were. For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie,…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (223+ words) After a violent confrontation with the man next door, Dove paints a daring question on the front wall of her Sunshine Coast hinterland farm: "What would you do if you had a whole day on earth free of men?" When…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (360+ words) Phyllida Banks is adored in the tiny village of Brookbank, nestled in the Southern Highlands outside Sydney. Admired for her curiosity and wisdom, her antiquarian bookshop is the hub of the community. So, when Phyllida is suddenly gone, leaving her…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (445+ words) Happy Woman by Abby Corson is an interesting and clever read. For much of the book it's a study in family relationships, personalities and whether a leopard can really change their proverbial spots. It also veers, towards the end of…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (464+ words) Rome 1951. Veronica Gold is in the city as the Italian correspondent for Vogue magazine. As the country tries to shake off its dark fascist past and promote itself as the most glamorous nation in Europe, so too does Veronica try…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (127+ words) Either side of the road was red earth, yellow grass, and scattered low trees and shrubs, a magnificent expanse as potentially hostile as it was beguiling. 2% through novel Never did she acknowledge the fact that the thing she'd been running…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (341+ words) As an infant, Kit Mc Kittrick's foster sister Akiko was abandoned at a firehouse. Now 32, Akiko has received an unsettling phone call from a woman who says that she knew her birth mother but refuses to divulge any details except…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (312+ words) Famed children's author Dame Eleanor Kingman has summoned her family and friends to her exquisite manor house on the cliffs. They're celebrating her birthday'and her latest number one bestseller in her series of books based on a mother fox and…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (400+ words) Click by Sarah Bailey is a sequel to her 2021 book The Housemate where we first met Olive (Oli) Groves. Apparently I wasn't alone in wanting to see more of the tenacious but likeable journalist as Bailey has resurrected that character…...