by Ashleigh Meikle | Nov 17, 2021 | Reviews, Round-ups
October saw the Australians in lockdown emerge for the most part. We had eight young adult reviews and ten for younger readers – perhaps a reflection of slower reading, easing of restrictions and a desire to get out into the weather as it warms up and heads towards...
by AWW Admin | Feb 16, 2014 | Guest Posts, Reviews
Throughout 2014 AWW will occasionally invite guest authors to review books of interest to challenge participants. Today’s guest author is historical fiction writer, Isolde Martyn. According to the International Nuclear Event Scale of 1 to 7, there have been two...
by AWW Admin | Dec 14, 2012 | Guest Posts, Reviews
The blurb On a mission to buy a prestigious shoe company, Australian career girl, Gemma Parkinson, arrives in Italy determined to succeed. But when she falls ill, effortlessly handsome local aristocrat, Luca Andretti, is on hand. Suspicious about Gemma’s presence in...
by Angela Savage | Dec 12, 2012 | Guest Posts, Reviews
Toni Jordan took as inspiration for her third novel Nine Days a photograph from the archives of The Argus showing, on a crowded platform, a woman held high on a man’s shoulders so she can kiss the soldier leaning towards her from the train window, presumably as...
by AWW Admin | Dec 1, 2012 | Guest Posts, Reviews
Memory is not democratic. It creates its own hierarchy concerning what will be at the top and what will be at the bottom. Memory decides what it remembers and what it forgets, and what emerges from the daguerreotype. (p.142) Memory is the device employed by author...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Nov 16, 2012 | Guest Posts, Reviews
Review by Belinda Castles Fishing for Tigers is a finely written, original and compelling novel about a thirty-something woman in Vietnam, Mischa, who embarks on a relationship with the son of a friend, Cal, who is half her age. Until she meets him, her only passion...
