BOOK REVIEWS

CHILDREN’S BOOKS | LITERARY FICTION | WRITING CRAFT | NATURE

MG Whitmarsh 3/29/19 MG Whitmarsh 3/29/19

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

When three girls go missing at Hanging Rock, a darkening chain of consequences unbalances the lives of those left behind.

Melanie Wood 3/23/19 Melanie Wood 3/23/19

Rumours of a strange aquatic serpent ignite the fears of a riverside community…

Melanie Wood 3/12/19 Melanie Wood 3/12/19

This book whips up a sense of imminent possible adventure. Five stars.

Melanie Wood 3/9/19 Melanie Wood 3/9/19

A locked-room mystery for armchair sleuths…

Melanie Wood 3/4/19 Melanie Wood 3/4/19

An instructive and inspiring beginner’s guide to sketchnoting…

Melanie Wood 2/28/19 Melanie Wood 2/28/19

Sarah Baxter and illustrator Amy Grimes explore famous literary locations

Melanie Wood 2/24/19 Melanie Wood 2/24/19

Before there was Frankenstein, there was Percy…

Melanie Wood 2/20/19 Melanie Wood 2/20/19

Hammond Innes’s 1952-novel Campbell’s Kingdom is a slow-burning, intelligent, technical thriller set in the Canadian Rockies.

MG Whitmarsh 2/10/19 MG Whitmarsh 2/10/19

A beautiful, unsettling book