Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell Black + White: Race Politics and Changing Australia by Nyunggai Warren Mundine Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders If you have difficulty with any of the links Right-click on the link and open in a private window and it should work.
My reading
2017 – A Year of Reading
While I have done reasonable well this year, managing to read fifty books, I haven't yet achieved my goal of a book a week. Once again, the fiction is mainly historical with a few classic works as well as a handful of books of poetry and of non-fiction. My top reads for the year are … Continue reading 2017 – A Year of Reading
My Reading – December 2017
Into the Water : A Novel by Paula Hawkins Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor The Lodger Shakespeare by Charles Nicholl Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
My Reading – November 2017
The Wild Air by Rebecca Mascull The Last Hours by Minette Walters Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell Blue Horses : Poems by Mary Oliver
My Reading – October 2017
Sumerford's Autumn by Barbara Denvil Gaskell The Secret Library : a Book-lovers' Journey through Curiosities of History by Oliver Tearle First Person by Richard Flanagan Jane the Quene by Janet Wertheim The Castle of Dreams by Elise McCune
My Reading – September 2017
Whipbird by Robert Drewe Crimson and Bone by Marina Fiorato When a Marquis Chooses a Bride by Ella Quinn Wintercombe by Pamela Belle
My Reading – August 2017
The Three Miss Kings by Ada Cambridge Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant A time of love and tartan : A 44 Scotland Street novel by Alexander McCall Smith Percy Grainger by John Bird Tomaree by Debbie Robson
Books I Didn’t Finish
I ended last year with the feeling that I had started but not finished almost as many books as I had read from cover to cover. This was an exaggeration of course, it was less than half that number. Not that any of the books were badly written, it was simply that they failed to … Continue reading Books I Didn’t Finish
My Reading – July 2017
A Writing Life: Helen Garner and her Work by Bernadette Brennan Days Without End: A Novel by Sebastian Barry New Boy : Othello Retold by Tracy Chevalier The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
My Reading – June 2017
Towers in the Mist by Elizabeth Goudge Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore The Golden Age by Joan London The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
