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(courtesy Storm Publishing) Whenever you plunge into a festive romcom, you rightly expect that you will feel like you’ve given the warmest and cosiest of hugs. One made of love and redemption and healing and all the trappings of the season from decorations and mulled wine, snowmen and wreaths string Continue Reading

(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers) Life crises, especially those of a more existential variety, are never a loot of fun. All of the things you once took as gospel, the certainties you could count on in a world not exactly sporting them in profusion, are suddenly well and truly up in Continue Reading

(courtesy Harper Collins Canada) If you’re going t do a festively fun take on a novel as loved and revered as Jane Austen’s Emma, then you need to be up to the task of doing it justice. Thankfully, Sheila Roberts is more than up to the task with her new Continue Reading

(courtesy Scholastic Australia) SNAPSHOTWhen Santa gets stuck delivering Christmas presents, he calls his friend the Easter Bilby to help! Can Bilby deliver all the presents before Christmas morning, or will her wild approach to gift-delivery create all kinds of hilarious Christmas Eve chaos? (courtesy Scholastic Australia) Poor Santa! He’s done Continue Reading

(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Now, if dinosaurs hadn’t died out some 65 million years ago when a rather big life-ending asteroid – well, almost life-ending; clearly the mammals dodged a bullet there – hit the earth, then it’s highly possible yoy might have been able to invite them to Continue Reading

(courtesy Sourcebooks Casablanca) Reading a series of books, festive or otherwise, in other than the intended order, is always a risk. If the author is good at their craft, then plunging into books two then three before bouncing back to book one, isn’t even remotely the end of the world; Continue Reading

Christmas has been long revered for its capacity to bring about new beginnings. Well, imagined new beginnings, anyway; while we might want it to fix reality and reshape our lives in the festive buoyancy and hopeful possibility of the season, the truth is that it often doesn’t do that outside Continue Reading

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) If you have ever wondered, and if not, why not, what might happen if Agatha Christie suddenly turn into a self aware meta murder solving detective, then you need to run, not walk, avoiding pools of blood from the victims, to the wonderfully funny but immensely Continue Reading

(Simon & Schuster Australia) There’s a host of Christmas romcom novels out there, all predicated on the same deliciously alluring idea the the most wonderful time of the year is the perfect time for miracles to happen and lives to be remade. But not all of these festively restorative delights Continue Reading