Body Positive Power : How to Stop Dieting, Make Peace with your Body and Live by Megan Jayne Crabbe This is an important book for anyone who struggles with their body image. It was a book I had seen recommended on social media and the...

Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue. The author of this comprehensive biography, Mark Mordue, is an award-winning Australian writer, journalist and editor. In the 1990’s he was the founding editor of Australia’s leading pop culture magazine Australian Style. Written over a...

Anonymous by Elizabeth Breck If you like strong female leads as your detective you’ve found your girl in Madison Kelly PI. Madison is extremely self-sufficient, smart, athletic, lives the Californian surf-culture lifestyle and is a licensed PI. An excellent insurance claims investigator, Madison now finds...

Win by Harlan Coben I am a big fan of Harlan Coben – he would be in my top 3 authors. For those who are familiar with his books that involve his character Myron Bolitar this book is all about his sidekick Win (Windsor Horne...

The Boy from the Mish by Gary Lonesborough The Boy from the Mish is young adult fiction and is the debut novel from Indigenous author Gary Lonesborough. I was excited about this book as soon as I heard it had been published because there are...

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See The Island of Sea Women is a story based on the lives of two women, Young-sook and Mi-ja on the island of Jeju. It follows their friendship from when they first met as young girls, when they...

Plantopedia : the definitive guide to house plants by Lauren Camilleri and Sophia Kaplan This is the perfect book for anyone who loves houseplants! Its over 400 pages of gorgeous plants and the information on how to not kill them. After reading this book I...

Fleabag : season 1 and 2 Fleabag is a show written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who also wrote and produced the first season of Killing Eve – obviously an amazingly talented human! I don’t want to give too much away as I think that...

Honeybee by Craig Silvey We first meet Sam on the railing of an overpass, where, filled with despair and unendurable hurt, Sam has come to die. Sam is 14 years old, hovering on the edge of childhood and the cusp of adulthood, struggling to find...

Appetite for innocence by Lucinda Berry I’ve just read the audio recording of  Appetite for innocence by Lucinda Berry. A serial rapist/murderer is stalking then abducting young girls via social media.  Once captured the girls are doomed, until Ella. Ella makes an escape and tries...