Fraser Coast Libraries

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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, Paul, author. Publisher: Edinburgh : Severn House, 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.
The girl who fell from the sky / Simon Mawer. Author: Mawer, Simon, author. Publisher: London : Abacus, 2013. -- ©2012 Review by: Loveday, Robert J. Mr. on: 3/11/2023 2:02:30 PM Member Rating: During World War II the British SOE its military special operations branch sent 39 women behind enemy lines. 26 of these survived the war. This is a fictionalised story of one of them. You will need to read the book to see if she was one of the survivors or not. Follow Marian Sutro half-French half-British through her recruitment her gruelling and exacting training, her parachuting into French, her work with the French resistance and finally her attempts to inveigle a key French physicist to flee from Paris to England. It is this last mission that is the most sensitive and personal to her. Before fleeing to England Marian while still a school girl established a close relationship with Clément a young scientist and friend of her brother. Clément is now a key physicist who may advance the allies research into the atomic bomb. Marian finds herself mixing a professional mission with sentiments from the past when she reunites with Clément. Entry into the world of the Resistance is a baptism of fire for Marian. There is an appropriate buildup of tension towards the conclusion. Will it end favourably for our heroes or will the forces of oppression exact a price
Ancestral journeys : the peopling of Europe from the first venturers to the Vikings / Jean Manco. Author: Manco, Jean, author. Publisher: London Thames & Hudson, 2015. Review by: Loveday, Robert J. Mr. on: 13/10/2023 12:39:11 PM Member Rating: What were the origins of all the ethnic groups of Europe? Indeed, who were the very first Europeans? This book is about the waves of migration that entered Europe from Cro-Magnon Man 45,000 years ago to the Vikings. A word of warning from the outset ... this book contains a significant amount of genetic analysis that you would almost need a PhD in genetics to follow. I actually skipped the first two chapters that focused on the archaeological, genetic and linguistic methodology that underlies this study. I was more interested in the results of the research, rather than the research itself. I also skipped the analysis of haplogroups (genetics again!) in each chapter for the same reason. It merely added confusion to an already complex picture. And, the picture is complex, at least until we get to the ancient Greeks about 4,000 years ago. It was this latter part of the book that truly drew my interest. So, Jean Manco did not write a book specifically for the layman ... it would be more suited to an undergraduate course at university. That said, there is a wealth of information to be mined from this book, but mine it you have to. There will be rewards for your efforts.
Old sins / Jane A. Adams. Author: Adams, Jane, 1960- author. Publisher: Edinburgh : Severn House, 2021. -- Edinburgh : Severn House, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd, 2021. -- ©2020 Review by: Ende, Kim on: 1/10/2023 6:53:56 PM Member Rating: Another well written 'cat and mouse' DCI Henry Johnstone story.
Esther : the extraordinary true story of the First Fleet girl who became first lady of the colony / Jessica North. Author: North, Jessica, 1956- author. Publisher: Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2019. -- Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2019. -- ©2019 Review by: Kendy on: 20/09/2023 9:21:25 AM Member Rating: A great insight into Australian History and the story of a brave woman who come to an unknown country on the First Fleet and rose from convict to high standing lady.