If you have read any of Marian Keyes’ earlier stories featuring the delightfully dysfunctional Walsh family, this will be the one you’ve been waiting for. The Walsh family first popped up in Watermelon, back in 1995. That novel topped bestseller lists everywhere and gave the world a taste of the brilliant writing style of Keyes […]
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This latest in the Harry Bosch thriller series centres on a past case that comes back to haunt our hero. As the 1992 Los Angeles riots threatened to destroy his home city, Detective Bosch and his colleagues are trying to carry on with the job of solving cases. This is no easy task, with the
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These hard-cover gems are both cute and quirky stories that are sure to be a hit with the littlies. In Yucky Mucky, it’s bath-time and as a dad tries his best to get his little girl into the bath, she is more interested in playing with her paints and getting ever more mucky. Author Melanie
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Canberra-based author Daniel O’Malley’s debut novel follows the story of Myfanwy Thomas as she tries to recover her memory of her life as something called a Rook, a high-level operative in a secret government agency. Improbable? Yes. Over the top? Certainly. An enthralling story that will get its hooks into you from the very first
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In the latest Camilla Lackberg novel to feature detective Patrik Hedstrom, author Christian Thydell is the recipient of threats after he begins writing a novel. One message, hidden inside a bunch of flowers, proves too much and leads to him collapsing at the launch party for his book. While Hedstrom’s wife, Erica Falck, investigates what
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For a small nation, New Zealand has had more than its fair share of headline-grabbing murders, but there are few that would rival the 1954 murder of Christchurch woman Honorah Parker. The name of the victim may not be as familiar as that of the two teenage girls who committed the awful crime: Juliet Hulme
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This sequel to The Hypnotist sees Detective Joona Linna of the Stockholm police return but this time as the main character. Two different cases vie for the attention of Detective Linna: the death of a Government official, which may or may not be suicide, and the drowning death of a young woman, her body found
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In the latest instalment in the Harry Hole series, the ex-detective has returned to Oslo after spending three years in Hong Kong. He asks his old boss if he can investigate a murder but permission is denied as the case is closed: the victim, a young junkie, was shot dead by a fellow addict. However,
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It’s easy to make food taste spectacular if you’re chucking expensive ingredients into the equation but making great-tasting food that will appeal to the whole family and keep the budget under control is a little more of a challenge. With the recession putting the squeeze on all of us, I’m sure most people would be
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People who know about these things (like Oprah) are always telling us how important it is to embrace our inner child and when these two books arrived at the office for review my inner child nearly had a conniption. iand Oh, The Places You’ll Go! 20th Anniversary are every bit as awesome as I remembered
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