Brona's Books

An Indiscreet Journey was a short story written in 1915 by Katherine Mansfield but published posthumously in the 1924 collection, Something...

Je ne Parle pas Français , or I Do Not Speak French was written in early 1918 and published in Bliss and other stories (1920). There is...

Book Stop is an occasional meme that allows me to travel and indulge in a good bookshop browse, during these strange, strange times when we ...

Miss Brill is a short story by New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in Athenaeum on 26 November 1920 and lat...

Mirka & Georges: A Culinary Affair is a beautiful book and hard to define. Is it an art book? Is it a biography? Or is it a recipe book...

Maigret's Anger  is my fifth Maigret. It was probably the lightest, easiest one of the lot so far, but it was also very atmospheric. Par...

C'est reparti ! As we bunker down for a long cold winter in Australia (okay a moderately cool and relatively short winter compared to t...

Le Ventre de Paris (also known as The Belly of Paris - a direct translation, or The Fat and the Thin referring to one of the main ideas e...

A Maigret Christmas contains three very different stories by Georges Simenon - A Maigret Christmas, Seven Small Crosses in a Notebook and T...

Also known as Signed Picpus or Maigret and the Fortune Teller , Signe Picpus was one of the three Maigret books that Simenon published in 1...

I wanted to read The Lady and the Unicorn thanks to the exhibition currently on at the Art Gallery of NSW. As a long-time cross-stitcher...

La Curée is the second book in Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart series of books set during the Second Empire in France. I read it this mont...