It's Christmas Time Again!!

                    MERRY CHRISTMAS 2012
 
It is that time of year again. How did Christmas time come around so soon? The decorations are out, the trees are going up and are you getting excited?? I know we are :D This year there are some fantastic books out for Christmas. 

We have the last Bryce Courtenay book - Jack of Diamonds

The new Janet Evanovich - Notorious Nineteen

The new Fiona McIntosh - Scriviner's Tale

The new Tara Moss - Skeleton Key

And many more awesome titles..

Come in and have a look around, talk to our friendly staff about your favourite books and remember to help support your local bookshop :D

                      Have a Merry Christmas everyone!

Book Review - Pandora English #2 Spider Goddess - Tara Moss

Spider Goddess – Tara Moss

We were lucky and our rep gave us a review copy of Spider Goddess, book 2 in the Pandora English series. I really enjoyed the first book and couldn’t wait to read the second.  The book picks up basically just after the end of book 1. Pandora is still working for Pandora Magazine and she is still getting picked on by the trio of vampire models. The story starts off with Pandora finding a big spider, yes a big spider and she doesn’t kill it. She puts it into a cup and takes it home. This starts off a chain of events that involve the Spider Goddess.

We find out a lot more in this book about Pandora and her family. Tara Moss weaves all the plot elements together with finesse and love. The story is well paced and you don’t want to put the book down. I think if you enjoyed the first one, you will love the second as the story only gets better. IF I had to gripe about this book, it would be that I felt it didn’t have as much action in it as the first book, but Tara makes up for that with fantastic storytelling.

Definatly a great book for paranormal/YA fans for Christmas!

Spider Goddess is out 22/11/11

Christmas Roadshow - Awesome Books

Last night, we went to the Pan Macmillan Christmas Roadshow – and let me say there are some big names coming out in the months leading up to Christmas.

 We have books from authors, Matthew Reilly, Liane Moriarty, Andy Griffiths, Di Morrissey, David Baldacci, Peter Watt, Tara Moss, Sue Grafton and Mark ‘Chopper’ Read - as well as many more.

Also there are a couple of new names, Amy Kathleen Ryan & Ilsa J Bick who write brilliant Y/A novels we really want to read.

Last night’s showcase showed us that this Christmas we are going to be treated to a large range of fantastic books – and that is only from one supplier!

I am excited this year to be able to provide our customers with fantastic reads that they be happy to read or give as gifts to their loved ones.

Blood Countess - Tara Moss

Tara's exciting new novel The Blood Countess launches October 31, Halloween 2010.

Read my review of it here Blood Countess Review

Pandora English is no ordinary small town orphan. When she's invited to live with her mysterious Great-Aunt Celia in New York City, she seizes the opportunity to escape her stifling hometown, break from her tragic past and make it as a writer.

Things, however, are not what she is expecting. For starters, her great-aunt's gothic mansion is in a mist-wreathed Manhattan suburb that doesn't appear on maps. And then there's Celia herself- a former designer to the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age - who is elegant, unnaturally young and always wearing a veil.

Pandora lands a job at a fashion magazine and her first assignment is covering the A-list launch of the latest miracle cream, BloodofYouth. But something is not right about the product, nor Athanasia, the drop-dead beautiful face of the brand. It seems there may be a secret ingredient in BloodofYouth, a secret worth killing for...

In The Blood Countess - the first novel in the new Pandora English series - bestselling author Tara Moss brings her trademark macabre and lifelong love of the paranormal to the fashion world with a twist.

Tara Moss is the author of the bestselling crime novels Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit and Siren. Her novels have been published in seventeen countries* in eleven languages, and have earned critical acclaim around the world. Her non-fiction writing has appeared in The Australian Literary Review, Vogue, ELLE, The Australian Women's Weekly, SMH and The Australian, among other publications. She also finds time to write her own blog, The Book Post. Her next novel will be published in November this year.