Patrika Salmon
The Star Garden
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Turner shares with us another episode in the life of Sarah Prine, a widow living in the Arizona Territory in 1906. Based on the ...Read Review
Mrs Jeffries and the Feast of St Stephen
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As described by the publisher, Mrs Jeffries is the Miss Marple of Victorian mystery. Based on this, I was keen to read the ...Read Review
A Tale of Gold
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If you want to know about the Alaskan Gold Rush and digging for gold, this is the book to read. Written for young ...Read Review
The Flaw in the Blood
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This is a strange book, a thriller set in Victoria’s Britain of 1861, but one with very high-class villains. It’s based on ...Read Review
Little Klein
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This is a book which many children will enjoy. A youngest brother, Little Klein, struggles to catch up with his three older brothers. ...Read Review
A Pigeon And A Boy
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It is always a pleasure to read a good translation of well-regarded book by one of another country’s premier writers. Meir Shalev ...Read Review
Tomorrow The World
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I’d heard raves about John Biggins’s novels set in the last fifty years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now I understand why. ...Read Review
Dragons from the Sea
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This is the second book in a series (the Strongbow Saga) about a young Viking warrior, Halfdan Hroriksson, who lives at the time ...Read Review
Dead Man In Paradise
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This book is the winner of the 2006 Charles Taylor Prize, Canada’s award for the best literary non-fiction. It’s a sad, frustrating ...Read Review
The Green Mill Murder
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Ah, wondrous Phryne Fisher, detective extraordinaire, Australian playgirl, and woman-about-town (circa the 1920s) is back. Wherever she goes, murder follows. Dancing at the ...Read Review
