Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North (Harold Fry #3) by Rachel Joyce
‘How do we do it? How do we accept the unacceptable?’ This is the last book in the trilogy that began with the wonderful The…
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The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry #1) by Sujata Massey
Set in India in 1921 The Widows of Malabar Hill gives a fascinating insight into the complexities of being an Indian woman with ambition at…
Still Life (Chief Inspector Gamache #1) by Louise Penny
Having thoroughly enjoyed the new tv series Three Pines, I felt impelled to explore the books on which it is based. So I started with…
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
In Entangled life Sheldrake explores the unsung role fungi has and always will play in our lives. This book may seem quite esoteric at first…
The Russian Wife (Brock & Kolla #14) by Barry Maitland
I read this book in a day! It’s got everything! The Russian mob; several murders; police corruption; art fraud and more! Barry Maitland is an…
The Coast by Eleanor Limprecht
The Coast is a powerful historical novel that spans many turbulent years in Australia’s history, including the First World War and the Spanish Flu epidemic….
Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinger Kaur #3) by Elly Griffiths
DI Harbinder Kaur is thrilled to be in charge of a Murder Investigation Team based in West Kensington; finally living in in a share house…
2022 Year In Review: SMSA’s Top 10 Books
Have you managed to read all of SMSA’s most popular books? Discover our Top 10 most borrowed titles for 2022, in our Year in Review…
2022 Year In Review: SMSA’s Top 10 Mysteries
Mystery & Crime lovers abound at SMSA, so we have highlighted the top books from that genre this year. Which have you read? We hope…
2022 Year In Review: Award Winners
Discover the year’s best books and award winners for 2021, focusing on the major literary and crime writing awards.
Dark Deeds Down Under by Craig Sisterson
A short review for a book of short stories! Do borrow this book of short stories from current Australian and New Zealand crime authors. I…
The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher
As we approach the end of another year (for those of us still alive), we would like to honour some important milestones of the literature…