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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Thursdays at Orange Blossom House – Sophie Green

    Hachette JUL 28, 2021 | 9780733646126 | RRP $32.99 Sophie Green has once again crafted a beautiful and resonant narrative that will capture the hearts of readers, just as her first two books did, with its exploration of the ‘circle of women’ always so evident in her work and, to my mind, so very important to so many. Indeed,…

  • Eliza Vanda’s Button Box – Emily Rodda

    Harper Collins Australia May 2021 ISBN: 9781460759608 ISBN 10: 1460759605 Imprint: HarperCollins AU List Price: 22.99 AUD Buttons three, attend to me! Take me where I want to be! Emily Rodda returns with her own special brand of sparkling magic inthis delightful new fantasy adventure. Milly Dynes has been a bit down in the dumps of late. She still…

  • 100 Remarkable Feats of Xander Maze – Clayton Zane Comber

    Harper Collins Australia June 2021 ISBN: 9781460759455 ISBN 10: 1460759451 Imprint: HarperCollins AU List Price: 19.99 AUD Age: From 14 years Believe me when I tell you that you will fall in love with Xander, and be sad to leave him at the end of this beautiful feel-good coming-of-age novel. Xander loves to make lists and #1 on his list…

  • Funny Kid Belly Flop: Funny Kid #8- Matt Stanton

    Harper Collins Australia September 2020 ISBN: 9780733340604 ISBN 10: 0733340601 Imprint: ABC Books – AU List Price: 14.99 AUD Ok so it took a while to get to this one but I laughed my way through it today while waiting patiently at my doctor. Pretty sure that others in the waiting room were slightly bemused by my stifled giggles.…

  • Before the Beginning – Anna Morgan

    Hachette SEP 29, 2020 | 9780734419651 | RRP $19.99 In a tweet when I mentioned I was reading this – and reading WAY past my bedtime because I was so engrossed – Anna Morgan replied “This book will disturb your sleep schedule” is an excellent review! Well all I can say is that it definitely will!!! Right from the…

  • The Jane Austen Society – Natalie Jenner

    Hachette Australia MAY 26, 2020 | 9781409194118 | RRP $32.99 Wow! This is certainly one impressive debut novel and well worth putting on your TBR list, particularly if you love books like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and others of its ilk. Beautifully articulated characters who drive this narrative, which has some basis in historical fact…

  • The Strangeworlds Travel Agency – L. D. Lapinski

    Hachette APR 28, 2020 | 9781510105942 | RRP $16.99 Twelve year old Flick Hudson is really not sure about her family’s move to a village, leaving their rather cramped flat for a much bigger home. Of course their old home wouldn’t have been so squashy if her dribbling, annoying baby brother Freddy hadn’t arrived some time before. With her…

  • Malory Towers: New Class at Malory Towers: Four brand-new Malory Towers 

      Enid Blyton, Narinder Dhami, Patrice Lawrence, Lucy Mangan, Rebecca Westcott Smith Hachette JUN 25, 2019 | 9781444951004 | RRP $14.99 If there’s anything Enid Blyton readers love more than EB stories – it’s more of them! The prolific writer who created so many memorable characters and series has left a legacy that continues to resonate with new generations of young readers. Now…

  • Shadow of the Centaurs- Saviour Pirotta

    Bloomsbury January 2019   ISBN: 9781472940254 Imprint: Bloomsbury Education RRP: $14.99 This is the fourth in this series but my first foray into the ancient world of scribe Nico and his slave friend Thrax who have become somewhat adept in solving most peculiar mysteries but it certainly won’t be the last. I loved the unravelling…