Style from the Suburban Intellect

Tom Standage’s A History of the World in 6 Glasses is a pint-sized history of humanity and our beverages of choice. Starting with beer ...

The Hon. Miss Phryne Fisher is an utterly delightful fictional character. She is an intoxicating combination of early female empowerment and...

On one perfect summer day in the early 1960s, Laurel Nicolson is hiding in the family tree-house avoiding a birthday picnic. She watches as ...

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things is a biography with a difference, in which author Paula Bryne investigates the life and person...

I’ve never read a Stephanie Plum novel before but they’re colourful and popular so I was looking forward to losing my Evanovich virginity. F...

Written initially for Sassi Sam and reproduced here.  On a small road outside Dublin, a tired truck driver swerves to miss a deer, causi...

Thanks to Sassi Sam I had the good fortune to meet with an interview Ciara Geraghty, author of Lifesaving for Beginners . I would like to t...

Read the full review on Sassi Sam . The Unfinished Journals of Elizabeth D is a novel about the secrets we keep and the lies-by-omissi...

( Source .) I finally read The Book Thief ! Almost two years ago, when B and I first began this blog, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak...

Read my full review on Sassi Sam . Lola is almost a book about nothing nothing much but it is a brilliant portrait of an ...

Read my full review on Sassi Sam . Lace by Shirley Conran came out in the 1980s and became a feminist bonkbuster bestseller. It traces ...

I have some news. I am now part of the team writing book reviews for the Sassi Sam website . I'm excited, so you should be too. I...

On a chilly July evening in Melbourne, someone is murdered in the back of a cab. No one knows who he is or why he was murdered. The only su...

Every so often when my boss and I discuss literature, she tells me that Anna Karenina is her favourite novel and is shocked and horrifie...

In September, I was given a Kindle for my birthday. In October, I finally got it out of its box and started to use it (it always takes ...