My Brother Themba by Michele van Rensburg is a novel with strong historical underpinnings, exploring racial tension in South Africa. It follows two key characters, Themba, the child of an inter-racial relationship, and Alex, a white boy. Against the backdrop of the apartheid system, these...

During The Great War, a virus quickly spreads throughout the world, killing more victims than the war in the historical fiction novel, The Pandemic Report by Kenneth R. McClelland. Devon McCall is a cub reporter sent to get a story that nobody else wanted. Traveling...

If I were fortunate enough to be able to interview award-winning TV producer Lucinda E Clarke about her latest psychological thriller, A Year in the Life of Belinda Brand, my first questions would be “How do you do it? How do you so consistently...

Remembering Hope by Parastoo Rezai is the story of a woman trying to keep her family intact while facing overwhelming odds. Bahar is an Iranian woman brought up in a conservative culture. After her childhood friend Shirin introduces Bahar to her cousin, Omid, Bahar finds...

Mothers of Pine Way is the sequel to Corrine Ardoin's highly acclaimed novel, Fathers of Edenville. Grieving over the death of her beloved mother Ev, Candelaria Hart puts all her efforts into shedding light on the plight of migrant workers in America. Feeling proud of...

The world in the future is run by women since Manflu has decimated the male population. Author Simone de Muñoz sets the scene with her principal character Morgan busy working in a government-sponsored lab to find a vaccine that will combat the disease. At home,...

Mariposa Oracle: Queen City Licensed Massage Therapist by Trisha Barry is a humorously told story that follows a massage therapist and the situations she gets herself into. I was immediately pulled in with the terrific descriptions, especially when she arrives at her client’s door, pulls...

A story of selflessness and devotion is always touching, but it is even more extraordinary when the protagonists are two brothers. Manas is the eldest and hopes that Manan, the younger brother, will have a wonderful life. Born and raised in a family that cannot...

The Train Jumper is a work of fiction in the historical genre. It is aimed at the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Gwen B. Banta. The book follows Kat and Leni, two young women on the run through 1950s America who...

Anne Moose opens House of Fragile Dreams with a brief chapter in which the protagonist, Rachel, is sitting in a police interrogation room, desperate to talk to someone to ‘explain her actions’. We get well into the story before we learn why she was there,...