Brona's Books

The series, A Fairy Tale Revolution , consists of   four picture books from Vintage Classics, that ' remix and revive ' well-known f...

How to adequately describe Shaun Tan's work? Phillip Pullman tries to in his Foreword of The Singing Bones - Fairy tale character...

Katie @Doing Dewey is hosting a challenge throughout February to encourage us to read a genre we tend to avoid. This month I am readi...

This is The Ugly Duckling song made famous by Danny Kaye in the 1952 movie Hans Christian Andersen (okay...I'll wait for you to finish s...

A Palace Full of Princesses contains four of Sally Gardner's Early Reader stories - The Frog Prince, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty & ...

For Angela Carter Week I've been reading my way through her short story collection, The Bloody Chamber . I've already reviewed th...

The Courtship of Mr Lyon and The Tiger's Bride are the next two tales in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber anthology. These two a...

The Bloody Chamber is the main story in Angela Carter's short story collection, of the same name, first published in 1979. It turned ...

I'm excited! Caroline from Beauty Is A Sleeping Cat is co-hosting Angela Carter Week with Delia from  Postcards From Asia . C...

Well, this is a lovely little find. Caroline @Beauty Is A Sleeping Cat and Delia @Postcards From Asia are co-hosting an Angela Carter mon...

Every now and again it happens. That perfect alignment of stars, fate and luck. When you take up a story that sweeps you away with it...

Over the years I have seen some curious books sitting in the fantasy section of bookshops which has prompted me to think about the literar...

You know how it is when you get one of those perfect books? The kind of book where you savour every line, every chapter, every character. ...

Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking Trilogy was on my list of "bad books". To show it wasn't anything personal (just an inexplicab...