There is something mystical about life in imperial Russia! There's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk. They say don’t pick a book by it’s cover but I never listen, I picked this book because of the Saint Basil’s Cathedral graphic. My hope was to be lost in a world of Russian fairy tail. I was not disappointed! This is the first book in the Leigh Bardugo weaves a beautiful story, a fairy tail fantasy, that takes place in the land called

Have you ever finished a great book and wished to discuss your most burning questions with the author? That is just what happened to me! I recently read and posted a review of the debut novel by Christine Dibley - To The Sea and was given the great opportunity of interviewing her. But before we get to the interview, I wanted to give you a chance to WIN a FREE copy of this 5 star book and read the story for your self. Pan Macmillan gave me an advanced copy for the review and n

Happy New Year!! I was looking forward to December as I thought with the time off I would get a chance to do more reading. Well that didn’t happen!! December was very much action packed and not for the right reasons. We spent 10 days in hospital with Charlie, he is doing really well now, then a mad rush at work to get things done before year end and finally the pressure of Christmas shopping, eating and celebrating. All that aside I still did some great reading in December an

When reality is too hard to process and folklore offers a more likely narrative we turn to it for comfort. legends have power: the power to calm sailors in terrifying storms, to comfort the lonely wife of a missing fisherman or to sooth the crazed mother of a drowned child Christine Dibley [W] I want more! As I closed the book on an overcast rainy Melbourne day, I felt a sense of quite and comfort overcome me. Well, at least that is what I choose to take away from this story

An alpha hero who doesn’t make assumptions about what the heroine needs? Hell, yes! I was outside of Eden before I met you, mi amor. I was a man who didn’t know his true place in this world … and now I find myself at home. Finally, a romance where the female character is equal to her love interest! Wild One is the second book in The Polo Season series. Each book in this series, High Season (Book 1) and Ride Free (Book 3) are stand alone. I recommend you read them in the corre