This is the kind of conversation that I would love to have with some guy someday, who turns out to be more than some guy. Most days I feel a...

This morning I finished reading Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich, part of the long-running Stephanie Plum series. I find myself in a ...

Just like a good trifle, a good mystery has several different layers so that when you dig into the concoction it is full of the flavour an...

While I haven't been putting many blog posts up here, I have still been blogging elsewhere! Last week I was honoured to attend the ina...

Today it is Anzac Day here in Australia, and in New Zealand, where we remember the landing of our troops on the beaches of Gallipoli and the...

Today I am pleased to welcome Aussie romance author Fiona Lowe with a guest post on independent heroines! I just read her new book, Saved by...

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from  The Captive Reader  and Marg from  The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader  that enc...

When Calliope Brown's Uncle Nestor dies, he leaves her all of his personal belongings - his papers, photos, some cash and the things t...

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from  The Captive Reader  and Marg from  The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader  that enc...

Elizabeth Jones is travelling back to England following the death of her parents in China when she is shipwrecked off the coast of South ...

If you were to ask me how my reading month was going to be half way through the month and I would have suggested that it was going to be a p...

After a few weeks off, I am back for Weekend Cooking. I actually had a book that I intended to review last weekend but I got a bit obsesse...

Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall is part of the Fables series that I have been reading for a year or so. The difference with this book is t...

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from  The Captive Reader  and Marg from  The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader  that enc...

I mentioned briefly last week that I have somewhat belatedly discovered The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, and by belatedly I mean just before it...