The good, the bad and the bookish

This collection of three paranormal/fantasy romance novellas tells the stories of three shape shifting brothers and the women that fall into...

Sandra Foster is a sociologist who studies fads; her current research focuses on what triggered the mania for hair bobbing in the 1920’s “de...

Tim is six, but has already lived through more tragedy than most people ten times his age – coming home with his nanny, Mona, from an after-...

Rebelling against his conservative politician father, Jack Swyteck became a defence lawyer. The night before his execution, Jack is shown de...

Tradition has it that if a knight slays a dragon, the beautiful princess of the kingdom is his. Although nobody knows it, Sir Terry and the ...

Julieanne Gillis has a brilliant life – married to her college sweetheart, two great adolescents and a surprise toddler, a fantastic relatio...

This book is an account of how the author ended up working as a secular exorcist. It includes a brief history of his interest in the occult,...

After the surprisingly hard going of the last book I wanted something fluffy and light, and jumped on Summer Psychic , which centres on Jo D...

Last week, gazing at the uncreased spines of my unread books, arranged in height order and then alphabetically, with a shelf each for hardba...

Twenty-three years after the publication of The Silver Metal Lover , Lee released a sequel. When I first saw it I hoped it would continue th...

Jane is sixteen, the pampered only child of Demea, a tall, beautiful, slender, powerful, wealthy single woman of strong character and clear ...

Alice Aigner is the head of history at a Sydney girls' school; a twenty-eight year-old Wiradjri woman, she's very happily single. At...

A collection of short stories told in a dark fairy-tale style, covering themes from love, through loss to destiny, this book provides a huge...

Dr Nagami has been an infectious diseases specialist since the early 1970’s. This collection describes some of her most memorable cases – ei...

Inspired by the many lists of things that evil overlords would do well to remember, this collection of short stories gathers luminaries from...

With no little trepidation – we have not been too successful with fiction anthologies of late - I embarked on this collection in honour of M...

Once again the novel opens with a summation of the plot so far, including: “ I had a really bad week, died, got reborn as a Djinn, had an ev...

It’s been a terrible summer - Anthony De Marco broke up with his philandering boyfriend in Provincetown, and Paige Crane’s soap star mother ...

Another instalment in the Phryne Fisher mystery series. This story sees Phryne elected as queen of a local flower festival, traumatic enough...

According to Clee, most people make fewer than three recipes from each cookbook they buy, and this is because the recipes are intimidating t...

Thirty eminent therapists, in addition to the editors, have submitted their most memorable cases from decades of clinical practice. In some ...

This comprehensive text starts with the premise that we are too preoccupied with germ eradication – we buy antiseptic soaps and ‘hospital st...

When the Marquis of Vidal is forced to leave the country (due to the imminent death of a man he shot in a drunken duel) the notorious gamest...

Blue McCarron is a thoroughly unconventional heroine – a lesbian social psychologist who doesn’t really like people, she retreated to an aba...

Another instalment of the alphabet series featuring the intrepid private investigator Kinsey Millhone. This time a doctor has been missing f...

Callie Rose is fifteen and conflicted. A halfer, she’s the product of the union between her singer/songwriter Cross mother, Sephy, and her d...

Stuart Cosling has already lived an unconventional life – his dalliance with a French widow, never formalised, has resulted in a son, Robbie...

Anonymous Lawyer is a hiring partner at a large, prestigious law firm. Despite his partnership, spacious home, sound marriage, and children ...

I know, I only read the first Weather Warden book a short time ago, and vowed to hold off buying more. But I am weak and, like all dieters, ...

On-air talent Isabel Murphy is starting to go places. She’s reported on Grammy Awards, hurricanes, the crash of TWA flight 800, President Cl...