Brona's Books

  I suspect, like me, many of you have heard about the basic premise of this story. The book seems to be everywhere (which is partly why it ...

Teen romance, The Gravity of Us  never quite reached the stars it was aiming for.  It took me ages to finish this cute story about budding ...

I had to remind myself of the exact definition of elegy as I was reading Ayad Akhtar's latest novel, Homeland Elegies: A Novel . In a pr...

I don't know why I've been dragging my feet about writing this post. I loved this return-to-form story by Anne Tyler, one of my fav...

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line attracted my attention initially thanks to the cover. That big eye seemed to follow me around everywhere...

I have to ask straight up - who is Norah's father? Could you work it out? I wasn't sure. There didn't seem to be any repercus...

I wanted to love The Forest of Wool and Steel  far more than I did in the end.  A coming-of-age story about a piano tuner from a re...

Nothing to See Here made nine of the 'best of' lists as compiled by Kate at the end of 2019 , with comments like 'laughed so...

I do love the Costa Prize. It regularly throws up a new-to-me author or a book that I come to adore. The Costa folk have a happy knack of...

I had no intention of reading Such A Fun Age . The premise sounded mildly appealing/interesting: When Emira is apprehended at a superma...

I'm still trying to catch up on posts leftover from my magnificent Christmas reading binge. Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel by Bernard...

I'm struggling, at the moment, to find the right words to describe my reading experiences, yet at the same time, I'm going throug...

In some ways this will be the easiest book response I've ever written. Quite simply,  Olive, Again is all the same wonderfulness ...

Hamish Hamilton | Penguin Australia In 1989 Saul Adler (a narcissistic young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. He is appare...

Don't let me mislead you into thinking that In the Gardens of the Fugitives is a book about gardening, food and recipes, even thou...