If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. Thanks for visiting!   Laura Powells recently released Burn Mark is a book that seems to tick all the right boxes. The premise is solid and intriguing, the world-building is rich and believable, and the characters...

  First rule of the wild: never take your eye off a predator. You never turned your back on wild dogs, even comatose ones. Unless what was coming at you was more dangerous Clare Delaney is a veterinarian tasked with releasing a team of wild dogs back into their natural habitat. But things go horribly awry when a group of men arrive on...

Cedar Cove is a town that will be familiar to many readers as the home of many of Debbie Macombers characters over the years. For these readers,'The Inn at Rose Harbor will be both familiar and something slightly new. Though the settings the same, and a few previously seen characters may crop up in small cameo roles, the novel marks the beginning...

What is it? Tuthmosis asked. An omen, your majesty. A dove flew over the courtyard. In ancient Egypt, doves arent associated with peace and happiness. The opposite in fact: theyre quite the gloomy portent. And rather aptly, in this case, as Tuthmosis drops dead mere moments after. Its an event that causes just a...

Fairy tales are life lessons disguised with colourful characters and situations, preaches Mrs Peters to her class of apathetic pre-teens, among them our twin protagonists, swotty Alex and snoozy layabout Conner. After this valiant bit of Aesopian moralising, Peters'goes on to bemoan the loss of the original Hans Christian Anderson and Brothers...

  My mother-in-law has always been quite chuffed about her birthday: having been born on the 8th of the 8th, shes quite the lucky woman. In Chinese culture, you see, eight is a lucky number. But my mother-in-laws eights pale in comparison with those of the eight daughters of the Huit (yes, the Eight) family of this quirky little series. Not...