Friday Update: The Reading Queue (3rd April) (although it's Thursday the 2nd)

This update is bought to you a day early because of the Easter Break which, this year, I hope will be focused on reading, in the spirit of...Read more
Sorted on book title (not in series order)

This update is bought to you a day early because of the Easter Break which, this year, I hope will be focused on reading, in the spirit of...Read more

This update is bought to you in the aftermath of an Easter break where not enough reading got done. To be honest, not a lot of anything...Read more

Still managing to not read enough books. The silver lining of the current fuel price / shortage problems is for us that may mean less...Read more

New Zealand literary fiction with a part historical setting.
Kate sets out on a motorbike to find her past. Why does her mother Jane only communicate through poetry? What became of her grandmother Meredith who travelled up the Whanganui River on a paddle steamer to marry a...Read more
Another in a long line of amazing family saga novels out of New Zealand, THE STRENGTH OF EGGSHELLS is the debut novel of Kirsty Powell.
A tale of the women of three generations of one family, this novel is the story of discovery, understanding and acceptance.
In...Read more

When bones of a mother and her child, wrapped in a Shetland lace shawl, are dug up from a forgotten graveyard, two worlds collide.
Ariel is raised on an isolated farm in New Zealand. She’s tough but when she’s blamed for an accident for which she has no recollection, her world...Read more