History Memoir and Biography Round Up: October 2021
October was another good month, with thirteen books reviewed, many of them not mentioned in Round Ups previously. The two that had been previously highlighted were Tanya Heaslip’s An Alice Girl which Jennifer Cameron-Smith reviewed here and Kathryn...
Historical Fiction Round Up: October 2021
October was a good month for historical fiction with 30 reviews on 21 books. Coming in with repeat reviews, we have: The Fossil Hunter by Tea Cooper – 5 reviews Jennifer Cameron-smith Brenda Telford Helen Sibbritt Theresa Smith Writes Cloggie Downunder...
Children and Young Adult Round Up: October 2021
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...
Classics and Literary Round-up: October 2021
With October under our belt things are returning to COVID-normal in Australia, though there are still ups and downs, some restrictions in place, and general all round uncertainty about what happens next. But, it’s nearly summer (here down under) and we are still...
General Fiction Round Up : October 2021
Well, hello everyone. Hope you have had a good month as we move quickly towards the end of what has been ‘quite a year’! Still two months left for more reviews to be added and October has been a pretty solid month with 46 reviews of 35 books. The...
Romance Round Up: October 2021
Welcome back to the Romance, Erotica and Romantic Suspense round-up for October 2021. We had a great month in October, with a total of thirty reviews received under the romance sub-category of the Australian Women Writers Challenge. These reviews were of twenty-three...
History Memoir and Biography Round Up: September 2021
What a bumper month! We received fifteen reviews of fourteen books, which is much higher than the number of reviews that we have collected in recent months. Some books that have been featured in round-ups previously were reviewed during September: Cass Moriarty read...
September 2021 Round Up: Children and Young Adult
With much of the country still in lockdown in September, I again wondered what the reading trends for this category would be. For children and younger readers, we had seventeen books, and for young adult readers, there were seven – so based on trends from the past two...
Non-Fiction (General) Round Up: September 2021
Hello Readers! For September there was: 9 Reviews, 6 Reviewers, and 9 Books Reviewed (1 of which was poetry). Wonderfully 6 of these 9 books were first-time reviews. Thank you for adding them to the database! The most prolific reviewer was Katie Elder here on Instagram with 4 books reviewed. The most reviewed title this month was…all of them! As each title was reviewed once.
