Fraser Coast Libraries

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The surgeon of Royaumont / Susan Neuhaus. Author: Neuhaus, Susan J., author. Publisher: Chatswood, NSW HQ 2025. -- Gadigal Country ; [Sydney, NSW] : HQ Fiction, 2025. -- ©2025 Review by: Devine, Patricia on: 25/05/2025 12:45:21 PM Member Rating: The Surgeon of Royaumont is set in World War 1 and covers issues of sexism prejudice sacrifice resilience and the casualties of war. The protagonist Australian Clara Heywood has successfully fought discrimination to become a medical graduate at the Prince Alfred Hospital only to find herself once again fighting the powers that be to attain a position as a surgeon in the Australian Army or British Army on the battlefields. She is finally offered a position at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont Abbey in France where under the guidance of Miss Frances Ivens Clara becomes proficient at performing surgery on the French casualties. This story is told with compassion and insight by a former Army surgeon whose extensive research has melded the experiences of a number of real life people into an enjoyable fictional read which I found hard to put down.
my Story: Schapelle Corby [eAudiobook] / Schapelle Corby, Kathryn Bonella ; read by Casey Withoos. Author: Corby, Schapelle. -- Bonella, Kathryn. -- Withoos, Casey. Publisher: [Tullamarine, Vic.] : Bolinda/Macmillan Australia, 2019. Review by: CoolDingo on: 20/03/2025 7:37:13 AM Member Rating: Excellent story whatever your thoughts on whether or not Schapelle was guilty she certainly didn't deserve what she got.
Mammoth science : (with a little help from some elephant shrews) / text and illustrations by David Macaulay. Author: Macaulay, David, author, illustrator. Publisher: London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2020. -- �2020. Review by: Babulal, Sharvesh on: 8/03/2025 2:29:18 PM Member Rating: I love this book cause it teaches me about science facts with a mammoth and some mammoth shrews.
Doom patrol : the complete second season [videorecording] Author: Guerrero, Diane, 1986-, actor. -- Bowlby, April, 1980-, actor. -- Wade, Joivan, 1993-, actor. -- Bomer, Matthew, 1977-, actor. -- Fraser, Brendan, 1968-, actor. -- Dalton, Timothy, 1944-, actor. -- Shanahan, Riley, actor. -- Zuk, Matthew, actor. -- Warner Publisher: [Australia] : Roadshow Entertainment, [2021] Review by: Geiger, Tyson on: 28/02/2024 9:46:17 AM Member Rating: funny as show adult humour
The good liars / Anita Frank. Author: Frank, Anita, author. Publisher: London : HQ, 2023. -- London : HQ, 2024. -- ©2023 Review by: Ende, Kim on: 20/01/2024 7:00:12 PM Member Rating: A well written and suspenseful book.
Murder at Down Street station / Jim Eldridge. Author: Eldridge, Jim, 1944- author. Publisher: London : Allison & Busby, 2023. Review by: Ende, Kim on: 15/01/2024 8:16:36 AM Member Rating: Another page turner by Jim Eldridge
The landscape of death : a Yorkshire murder mystery / M. S. Morris. Author: Morris, M. S. (Joint pseudonym), author. Publisher: [Oxford] : Landmark Media, [2022] Review by: Ende, Kim on: 5/01/2024 3:07:07 PM Member Rating: Good first novel of DCI Raven set in the amazing landscape of North Yorkshire
Murder most treasonable / Paul Doherty. Author: Doherty, P. C., author. Publisher: Sutton, UK : Severn House, 2024. -- Edinburgh : Severn House, 2024. -- ©2023 -- Edinburgh : Severn House, 2023. Review by: Ende, Kim on: 8/12/2023 2:13:06 PM Member Rating: Another brilliant book in the Br Athelstan series by Paul Doherty.
Tightrope / Simon Mawer. Author: Mawer, Simon. Publisher: London Little, Brown, 2015. Review by: Loveday, Robert J. Mr. on: 20/11/2023 4:13:57 PM Member Rating: Tightrope is a sequel to The Girl Who Fell from the Sky. I strongly recommend you read this latter book before you read Tightrope, otherwise you will be straining to understand some of the relationships and fail to fully appreciate the characters. The war is over and Marian returns to England after working with the French Resistance and spending 18 months in a German concentration camp. Can she, after all she has been through, after all the loses she has experienced, return to civvy street and a normal life? She may adopt the shell of normality, a marriage and nine-to-five job, but her past will not leave her in peace. The Cold War is heating up. A relationship with a charismatic Russian marks her as a prime candidate for a honey trap. But will she be trapping the Russian or will the Russian trap her. Slowly but surely Marian becomes subsumed in the world of espionage. Belligerents lurk in every dark corner. She needs to disappear. A good story encapsulating the disruption caused by war the morals of technological secrets and super weapons and the tugs of loyalty to nation vis-à-vis loyalty to ones principles and beliefs.
Drunk : how we sipped, danced, and stumbled our way to civilization / Edward Slingerland. Author: Slingerland, Edward, 1968- author. Publisher: New York : Little, Brown & Company, 2022. -- New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2022. -- ©2021 Review by: Loveday, Robert J. Mr. on: 17/11/2023 1:42:27 PM Member Rating: What is your attitude to alcohol? A social lubricant? A manageable vice? Or a potentially dangerous tempter? Slingerland has developed a hypothesis and has taken a multidisplinary approach to argue it. Theres history, archaeology, neurology, anthropology, psychology, sociology, philosophy; you name it. So what is his hypothesis? Well not only has alcohol been a part of almost every human society since hunter-gatherer times, but that it was an essential precursor to even a driver of the formation of civilizations. By temporarily dimming our rational-calculating prefrontal cortex it opened our minds to creativity trust diplomacy negotiation and cooperation. He draws analogies with other feel-good instigators but stresses the advantages alcohol has over these. Slingerland does at least concede his last chapter to the dangers of alcohol. Although tirelessly argued from several perspectives I detected flaws in his postulations. He sometimes started with unsubstantiated premises, made many assumptions based on thin evidence, and tended to jump too quickly to conclusions. However if you wish to find justification for your tipples a read of Drunk will certainly help.