I’ll say this up front: Seed by Bri Lee is the best novel I’ve read this year. It’s thoughtful, tense, provocative and emotionally devastating. It has everything you could possibly want in a thrilling story. Mitchell and Frances work together for one month a year at the Anarctos Project, a seed vault in an isolated […]

Two sisters live within the kitchen and walled garden of their childhood home, unable to venture into the world. Left alone since their father disappeared and their mother died, they continue to be fearful of what is “out there”. Their whole world exists of keeping themselves alive by growing food in the garden, following the […]

This is a delightful story about Miss Caroline Bingley as you have never imagined her to be. Set two years after the events of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Miss Bingley is staying at her brother’s estate and is, frankly, bored. Enter Georgiana Darcy, whose maid, Jayani, has gone missing. Miss Bingley seizes the opportunity […]

What an entrancing story! Opaline, Martha and Henry have entwining lives, if only they knew it. A vanishing bookshop is the key to unlocking the shared stories of these three characters; a lost bookshop that was waiting to be found. I was pleased to discover this novel. It combines historical fiction, romance and magical realism […]