A vintage teaset, offered up at a car boot sale in Sussex, brings together three women from quite different lives, in Vanessa Greene’s debut novel The Vintage Teacup Club. At first glance, each lady dismisses the others and believes her need for the teaset is more important than the rest. However, they agree to settle the [...]
The history of Scotland, and its inhabitants, is a dark and fascinating place. In her latest novel, The Island House, Posie Graeme-Evans takes a look at it in an unusual way. Firstly through the eyes of Freya Dane, a modern-day archaeologist, who inherits an isolated house on a remote Scottish island from her estranged father; and [...]
The Great Deception, Joy Chambers‘ latest novel, is set in Nazi-occupied Holland during the war and follows the tale of one of Britain’s highly trained Special Operations Executive (SOE) operatives, Cole Wareing, and a Dutch patriot, Laetitia de Witt as they cooperate on a deadly, but daring mission. Starting in 1947, the novel shows Cole [...]
Tina is seventeen, and lives in a squat in Kings Cross. By day she sleeps, and by night she stands on the street hoping for a mark to make $20 to see her through the next few days. She has worked hard to build up solid walls between what she does, and what she feels, [...]
Two women’s lives, 100 years apart, are centred on a single isolated lighthouse and town on the Queensland Coast, in Kimberley Freeman’s latest novel Lighthouse Bay. In 1901, Isabella Winterbourne is the sole survivor of a shipwreck bringing a stunning jewel-decked golden mace as a gift from her husband’s family to the new government in [...]
At first glance, Becky Wicks‘ latest book Balilicious seems just like another travel memoir, but soon enough you will change your mind as it becomes clear that Becky Wicks is not your ordinary travel writer. If you’ve read her previous work, you’ll be familiar with her dry style, which admittedly I found a little wearing [...]
Set in Saudi Arabia in 1967, In the Kingdom of Men explores the life led by “Aramco wives” – the women of the oil engineers, managers and drillers who were working and living on Aramco owned oil platforms and towns. Kim Barnes has taken the Kingdom of the title to mean both the Kingdom of [...]
Written in an autobiographical style, In the Shadow of the Banyan is the tale of the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in 1970, through the eyes of a child. While the story is fictional, some elements are based on Vaddey Ratner’s own experience as a child at the time. The story is told [...]
Set in the historic Gold-Rush town of Millbrooke in rural NSW, Mr Chen’s Emporium is the tale of Amy and Angie – two women who live in Millbrooke and almost by accident, end up finding it to be the root from with they can grow. The key fact here being that Amy Duncan lived in [...]
Christelle is your average receptionist on the outside – obsessed with fashion, gossip, and celebrities. And celebrity fashion and gossip. But in Carla Caruso’s novel Cityglitter, things are not quite what they seem. For one thing, Christelle is obsessed with fine white powder – not the stuff you think, but sugar. Because Christelle is a [...]
The Painter’s Apprentice is the follow up to Charlotte Betts‘ successful novel “The Apothecary’s Daughter. The setting is Merryfields Sanctuary for melancholic souls, a family home on the outskirts of London in the late 1600s, where Beth Ambrose has grown up, sheltered from the turbulence of city life. Her family care for a number of [...]
Channel The Great Gatsby at Home with Ecoya’s “Decadent” Collection of Candles
Ecoya released their exclusive Decadence range of fragrant candles two years ago to much glamboyant success. Designed by Ecoya’s “Nose” and not to mention foremost perfumers in the world, Isaac Sinclair. Inspired by the cities of New York, London, Paris and Shanghai, and the art-Deco world of the 1920′s, the “Decadence by Ecoya” (RRP$79.95) celebrates [...]
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate Has A Makeover + Two New Flavours in the Marvelous Creations Range
The classic institution of Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate has had a bit of a makeover as well as the addition of two new flavours added to the incredibly popular Marvelous Creations Range. While there’s usually no reasons to fix something that isn’t broken, there’s no such thing as too much, when it comes to Cadbury. [...]
MOR’s Luxurious Signature Marshmallow Deluxe Candle is a Must Have
Fans of MOR’s scrumptious scents will be familiar to their signature scent; Marshmallow, one of their most popular fragrances. Now, get excited, they have released a luxurious, deluxe soy candle in this fantastic scent for an indulgent bath time treat. Seriously, it’s scentalicious heaven! For those who don’t know the scent, Marshmallow combines Vanilla Musk [...]
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Win 1 of 4 DVD Packs Including; The Sapphires, Ted, Friends with Kids, Magic Mike and Lola Versus
To celebrate the release of the latest movies to be released to DVD, we have four packs of each these movies to giveaway; The Sapphires, Ted, Friends with Kids, Magic Mike and Lola Versus. Sing along with the girls from The Sapphires as they entertain the troops in Vietnam; laugh along to the the irreverent [...]
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