I just received this beautiful ARC from a New Zealand writer. I am so excited to read and review this one. Beneath Pale Water by Thalia Henry The Blurb Set amidst the physical and psychological landscapes of New Zealand’s southern hills and grasslands, Beneath Pale Water is a social realist and expressionistic novel that follows […]
A docile old woman? A city lot, an old tree and a few urchin kids? These are the unlikely heroes of the “eco-friction” novel, Treed, by Virginia Arthur. Author: Virginia Arthur Genre: Fiction My Rating: **** 4 / 5 The Book The Blurb A consequence of getting older is that current experiences inevitably get threaded
The fight continues and I am backing Hildegard. I just love this historical series with a female protagonist who is calm, rational and assertive. Escape to medieval Germany with this new novel. Author: P K Adams Genre: Historical Fiction Page Count: 370 My Rating: ♠♠♠♠ 4/5 This is book two of the Hildegard von Bingen
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This month, I have best-selling author Nicky Pellegrino on the blog. The words in her novels conjure up the sights, smells and tastes of Italy, inspired by her summer holidays there as a child. She now calls New Zealand home and loves to ride horses, cook and read, as well as writing. K: What is
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What is not to love about this classic? Jane Austen’s novel is a biting social commentary from the very first line: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” The tale has been re-told in countless modern books like Pride
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“I was a pretty vocal kid, and was often ticked off for ‘telling long-winded fibs’”
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Today, I am discussing women who write science fiction. Although science fiction is strictly about a future that uses technology, my definition for this post will include dystopian and speculative fiction. The genre has traditionally been male-dominated and the female main characters, few and far between. With more modern female sci fi writers coming onto
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This blog hop is organised via the Facebook group Bookish Blog Hops and runs from 1st- 15th February 2019. During the blog hop members of the group will be coming together to answer bookish questions. The full schedule of stops is below. Want to join in future blog hops organised by Bookish Blog Hops? Click
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Welcome to my first chat with a New Zealand author of 2019. Today, I have something a little different on the blog. Andrew Macdonald is a non-fiction author, with a love of travel and military history. He has a background in journalism and was a correspondent at Reuters in London. He has published or contributed
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Stories set in the past force characters to their limits. Death is a close companion in historical fiction, whether from battle wounds, childbirth or disease. So we see novels about daring feats of bravery, born of desperation. Or books about how much the characters can bear. In some of these stories, the women characters withstand
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