March 2025
International Women’s Day is right around the corner, and I thought it would be fitting to take that as my starting point this month.
Ashley Kalagian Blunt has written a clever page turner of a thriller with Cold Truth. It’s set in Winnipeg and revolves around influencer Harlow’s search for her missing dad. It is truly chilling and completely had me rethinking everything I share on social media. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough; twists and turns and ‘truth like quicksand’
Not Now, Not Ever by Julia Gillard has done an incredible service with this book. Entertaining and enlightening, as well as insightful and informative. It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the patriarchy, so it’s books like this that remind us how far we have come and what can be done next.
I adored We Are The Stars, I didn’t watch Alone Australia, but I did hear Gina Chick speak at my work Dymocks Conference last year and that was enough to entice me to read the memoir. Heartbreaking, life affirming and so authentic. I loved it.
An Undeniable Voice by Tania Blanchard follows the British suffragette struggle into the 1900s. I had no idea how incredibly violent it was, nor how protracted. It did a fantastic job of putting me into the period and letting me see this fight for the vote as it happened. Such an incredible story.
The Masterpiece by Belinda Alexandra was like nothing I had read before. It follows Eve in 1946 as she tries to help a man being accused of selling a masterpiece to Hitler. Art forgeries, resistance, a love triangle, trauma, truth and rabbits all feature in this novel. There is a sentence I never thought I’d say!