With 2024 done and dusted, it was time to assemble my review summary for the year. Here it is:
Rating Scale:
***** Fantastic! You’ve gotta read this one!
**** Great. Well worth a look
*** OK. You may enjoy it.
FICTION
COMEDY/HUMOUR
**** “The Secret Political Advisor” by Michael Spicer
COSY MYSTERY/CRIME
***** “Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone” by Benjamin Stevenson
***** “The Cryptic Clue” by Amanda Hampton
***** “The Tea Ladies” by Amanda Hampton
***** “Lies and Deception” by Laraine Stephens
**** “Murder in Williamstown” by Kerry Greenwood
**** “The Adventures of the Christmas Pudding” by Agatha Christie
CRIME/HARD BOILED/NOIR
***** “The Housesitter” by Tara Marlow
**** “Killarney” by Nikki Mottram
**** “Shine a Light” by Ward Howarth
**** “Wellworth” by Eila Jameson-Avey
LITERARY FICTION
***** “The Little Paris Bookshop” by Nina George
***** “The Lying Life of Adults” by Elena Ferrante
***** “Until April” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S FICTION
***** “The Life Makeover Club” by Juliet Madison
***1/2 “The Revenge Club” by Kathy Lette
ROMANCE/RURAL ROMANCE
***** “The Honeystone Village Diaries” by Kate Forster
**** “Holiday in July” by Juliet Madison
**** “Tricked by Love” by Tara Kennedy
SCIENCE FICTION
***** “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
***** “The Chrysalids” by John Wyndham
****1/2 “The Day of the Triffids” by John Wyndham
**** “Before the coffee gets cold” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
**** “Shattered Prophecy” by Jay Merrick
NON-FICTION
ART/FASHION/CULTURE
***** “365: A Year in the Life of Melboure” by Chis Cincotta
***** “Art Boozel” by Jennifer Croll & Kelly Shami
***** “Humans in Melbourne – Volume 2” by Chis Cincotta
***** “Moments of Melbourne – Volume 2” by Chis Cincotta
**** “Cage Society: Socialites, Patrons and Artists: 1920-1960” by Thierry Courdett
**** “London” by Louise Nicholson & Richard Turpin
**** “Magritte” by NSW Art Gallery
**** “Marr’s Guitars” by Johnny Marr
**** “Nowhere Fast: Punk and post-punk Brisbane 1978 – 1982” by Robert Forster & John Willsteed
**** “Without Limits” by The Art of Banksy
HISTORY
**** “Black Cabs and Sleeping Policemen” by Harry Oliver
**** “Corners of Melbourne” by Robyn Annear
**** “Fake History: 101 things that never happened” by Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse
MEMIOR/BIOGRAPHY
***** “The Salt Path” by Raynor Winn
**** “3 Shades of Blue” by James Kaplan
**** “E.W. Cole Chaing the Rainbow” by Lisa Lang
**** “Wow, no thank you” by Samantha Irby
SELF HELP/EDUCATIONAL/REFERENCE
***** “Getting to know the birds in your neighbourhood” by Darryl Jones
**** “Climbers and Creepers” by Allen Gilbert
**** “Eat So what! The Science of Water Soluble Vitamins” by La Fonceur
**** “Garden Birds of Australia” by Peter Slater and Sally Elmer
**** “How To Talk To Your Spirit Guides In Ten Simple Steps” by Will Almando
**** “New Zealand’s South Island” by Lonely Planet
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