Category: Books

Red Lotus, Pai Kit Fai

Red Lotus, Pai Kit Fai

| 6 March , 2010 | Reply

Andrea Parks In 1906, a little girl is born on a spice farm in Southern China. Unwanted – because she is a girl – she is an encumbrance to her family and is nearly buried alive in the middle of a mustard field by her father.  Meanwhile, Pai-Ling, her beautiful concubine mother, violently ends the [...]

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The Crowded Shadows, Celine Kiernan

The Crowded Shadows, Celine Kiernan

| 4 March , 2010 | Reply

Tina Gamble The Moorehawke Trilogy (II) Alone for the first time in her life, Wynter Moorehawke travels unprotected in bandit-infested mountains, searching for missing Prince Alberon. Every tyrant who ever threatened the Kingdom is gathering to Alberon\’s table, and the forest is alive with spies and wolves. Within these crowded shadows, Wynter remains determined to [...]

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That Loving Feeling, Carole Matthews

That Loving Feeling, Carole Matthews

| 4 March , 2010 | Reply

Keryn O’Donnell Ever reached a point in a relationship where you become TOO comfortable with your partner? Where the spark and magic seems to have simmered away into bland, monotonous, every day life? Ever dreamed of having that ex who shattered your heart into a million pieces suddenly reappear in your life, begging for forgiveness [...]

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I Heart Hollywood, Lindsey Kelk

I Heart Hollywood, Lindsey Kelk

| 3 March , 2010 | Reply

Keryn O’Donnell Having not read the first instalment (I Heart New York), I was apprehensive about jumping into I heart Hollywood by Lindsey Kelk with no background knowledge – fortunately this was no problem at all. With enough background knowledge served up about both the plot line and the characters, you feel instantly at home [...]

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Book Reviews: Meals Men Love, Lana Vidler

Book Reviews: Meals Men Love, Lana Vidler

| 2 March , 2010 | 2 Replies

Samantha Singer “It\’s official…the way to a man\’s heart is through his stomach”; or so says Lana Vidler, author of Meals Men Love, the light blue cook book that takes us back to the 1950s and right back into the kitchen. Now, I love to cook and I love to cook for my boyfriend. Yes, [...]

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MUSINGS: The Sartorialist Book Review

MUSINGS: The Sartorialist Book Review

| 2 March , 2010 | Reply

Emma Bradshaw I still remember the first time I logged on to Scott Schumann\’s revolutionary and now much imitated site The Sartorialist. Like a shameful many things in the past I was late to get on The Sartorialist bandwagon, but that fateful first day I was passionately hooked. I spent all day clicking through image [...]

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Evidence, Jonathan Kellerman

Evidence, Jonathan Kellerman

| 2 March , 2010 | Reply

Andrea Parks Serious investigation into a serious crime is what we get in Evidence. In this, his 24th novel in the Alex Delaware mystery/crime thriller series, Jonathan Kellerman is an expert, and well, he\’s written 24 bestselling novels&need I say more?  He smoothly sets the scene with a grisly crime and promptly moves his detectives [...]

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I Am Not A Serial Killer, Dan Wells

I Am Not A Serial Killer, Dan Wells

| 1 March , 2010 | Reply

Tina Gamble ‘There was a new monster in town, it seemed – would its presence awaken the one I kept hidden?\’ John Cleaver\’s not your average teenager – fifteen, a mortician, and a sociopath, with a decidedly different interest – serial killers. Most of your average teenagers would count it lucky to have never witnessed [...]

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Roadside Crosses, Jeffery Deaver

Roadside Crosses, Jeffery Deaver

| 1 March , 2010 | Reply

Kristy McCormick I am not tech savvy. I do not tweet and to many of my friends eternal frustration I am not on Facebook. Apparently it would make their social lives easier if I were. And I have to say, after reading Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver, I am not all that sure if I [...]

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Interview: Accidentally Single, John Aiken

Interview: Accidentally Single, John Aiken

| 28 February , 2010 | Reply

Elise Phillips, Stuff That I Bought When I say the words ‘love guru\’ what do you think? Exactly…a bad Mike Myers and Justin Timberlake movie. It seems, though, that I have found the real life love guru (sans dodgy porn star mo). While John Aiken won\’t tell you how to win the guy, he does [...]

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Sacred Hearts, Sarah Dunant

Sacred Hearts, Sarah Dunant

| 25 February , 2010 | Reply

Kristy McCormick I actually quite enjoy the odd historical novel. Perhaps it is because I am just in awe of how much research the author had to have done to write it; or the fascination in the differences between how we live now compared to then. Regardless, when I first picked up Sarah Dunant\’s novel, [...]

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