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Fiona's fave reads for 2021

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  • Because Ms Penny is one of my favourite mystery authors. Written in her usual beautiful style with all the regular characters of Three Pines, it's a murder set in the Canadian post Covid lockdown world. Now I have the wait until she's written her…
    Book, 2021London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2021. — MYSTERY
  • The Last Shot

    a Coming-of-age Memoir of Addiction, Ambition and Redemption

    Zonfrillo, Jock, 1976-2023
    A no holds barred peek into the debauched lives of chefs (celebrity or no). It's an insight into the smooth talking Scottish dude from Master Chef Australia, in particular his work with Aboriginal leaders to create an indigenous food database.
    Book, 2021Cammeray, New South Wales : Simon & Schuster, 2021. — 641.5 ZON
  • Savvy seniors getting amongst a murder investigation!
    Book, 2020[United Kingdom] : Viking, 2020. — MYSTERY
  • Between Two Kingdoms

    a Memoir of a Life Interrupted

    Jaouad, Suleika
    Read it for the eloquent account of dealing with your life being upended by cancer at the tender age of 22.
    Book, 2021New York : Random House, [2021] — 070.92 JAO
  • As someone who doesn't usually read the fantasy genre, the Bone Season first book of the series sucked me in and four books in with a twist at the end, I'm still hooked.
    Book, 2021New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. — FANTASY