Australian history with a bit of crime and romance

I am really enjoying the Sulari Gentill books of the Rowland Sinclair series. I have just finished Gentlemen Formerly Dressed and enjoyed it just as much as the previous book I reviewed.  The story moves along at a rollicking pace and I stop now and again to check on some particular aspect of Australian history…

Mudbound was such an appropriate title for this novel

I have managed to complete another book for my Historical Fiction Reading Challenge.  This novel was Mudbound by Hillary Jordan which won the 2006 Bellwether Prize for Fiction. The novel is set on a cotton farm in the 1940s and the story is told by six people, three of those voices being white the other…

An Australian author I enjoy

I have written previously about the debut novel of Sulari Gentill but since that time she has been prolific in her writings.  I have read A Few Right Thinking Men, A Decline in Prophets and Paving the New Road.  She has also written Miles Off Course but I haven’t read that one.  I am just about…

Three roses and I picked the middle one

The Winter Rose is certainly a book to lose yourself in, 724 pages and a wonderful saga. I picked this book up at a secondhand bookshop, it was in the reduced box.  Originally $5, purchased for $2. From the bookjacket: It’s 1900 and the East End of London is a dangerous place for a woman doctor…

East of the sun is more than a song

I have managed, this month, to get a historical fiction book read well before the month is over.  I was slack last month and only read one historical fiction book during the month.  I aim to do better this month for my Historical Fiction Reading Challenge. The book East of the Sun certainly fits into…

Falling down in my Historical Fiction Challenge

As I have been busy doing other things I haven’t read many books for my Historical Fiction Reading Challenge.  I have been reading crime fiction but I am now reading a historical fiction book for my challenge.  The book is Suite Française by Irene Némirovsky A wonderful book with so many interesting characters. From the cover:…