About jacky

I was brought up on the classics in the UK but now I’m a Pozzie (British by Birth, Australian by choice) I’m enjoying discovering Australian works, we have some terrific storytellers. I’ve been a member of a local book club for a decade or so and that has also widened my choice of reading. I agree wholeheartedly with Stephen King: “Books are a uniquely portable magic”

BOOK CLUB: Love Letters from Montmartre

January 4, 2020 by jacky 3 Comments

Author: Nicolas BarreauISBN: 9780349423463Publisher: Hachette AustraliaLove Letters from Montmartre has been translated from German by Daniela Thiele. The author, Nicholas Barreau, was born in Paris, the son of a French father and German mother. He studied romance languages and literature at the Sorbonne and has worked in a bookshop on the Rive Gauche in Paris. The main … [Read more...]

BOOK CLUB: Riverstone Ridge

November 26, 2019 by jacky 11 Comments

Author: Mandy MagroISBN: 9781489277497Copy courtesy of the publisher This novel by bestselling Queensland writer, Mandy Magro, is set in her beloved far north Queensland and is a very Australian love story. The main character, Nina Jones, was brought up at Riverstone Ridge by her adoptive mother Bea, Nina makes what she sees as a terrible mistake when she is a teenager … [Read more...]

BOOK CLUB: Taking Tom Murray Home

October 8, 2019 by jacky 17 Comments

By Tim SleeISBN: 9781460757864Imprint: HarperCollins - AU Author Tim Slee was the winner of the inaugural Banjo book prize, with his novel Taking Tom Murray Home. The Banjo prize, given by HarperCollins, is a quest to find Australia’s next great story teller and having read Taking Tom Murray Home I have to agree that Tim Slee is a great story teller. The story … [Read more...]

BOOK CLUB: Matters of the Heart

September 23, 2019 by jacky 10 Comments

By Fiona Palmer ISBN: 9780733641596 Publisher: Hachette Australia Fiona Palmer is a popular Australian author who has written ten bestselling novels, she lives in a rural community hundreds of kilometres from Perth and as well as writing works as a farmhand. Many of her novels are set in country communities and in this novel her knowledge of the bush and … [Read more...]

BOOK CLUB: The Emerald Tablet

July 9, 2019 by jacky 9 Comments

Author: Meaghan Wilson AnastasiosISBN:9781760552633RRP: $29.99Publication Date: 25 June 2019Publisher: Pan MacmillanCopy: Courtesy of the Publisher The Emerald Tablet by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios features Benedict Hitchens the archaeologist she first introduced readers to in The Honourable Thief. As in that novel Meaghan’s expertise and skill as an archaeologist in the … [Read more...]