More August reads

The Women in Black by Madeleine St John What a delightful story set in the 1950s in Australia. “Sydney in the late 1950s. On the second floor of the famous F.G. Goode department store, in Ladies’ Cocktail Frocks, the women in black are girding themselves for the Christmas rush. Lisa is the new Sales Assistant…

Miles off course, this is Rowland Sinclair again

This is the book I missed in the Rowland Sinclair series.  It doesn’t seem to matter that I have read it out of order as the books work well as stand alone novels. From the cover: In early 1933, Rowland Sinclair and his companion are ensconced in the superlative luxury of The Hydro Majestic –…

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…

A Decline in Prophets, no it is not a misspelling.

I just love the artwork on the cover of this book.  You may remember a post I did previously on A Few Right Thinking Men, well this is the second book from the same author and featuring Rowland Sinclair. I think the quote at the bottom of the cover sums up why I like the…

A few right thinking men. . .is that what we need?

My next A-Z Book Challenge book is by an Australian author.  Don’t you just love the cover? At the moment, in Australia, we have a series on television called Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and this bookcover reminds me of this series. The television series is based on  The Phryne Fisher series of books by Kerry Greenwood…