Brona's Books

  I know there is a lot of love for The Living Sea in Waking Dreams out there already.  It's not that I didn't love it, or even adm...

I recently read an interview with Ann Patchett where see was asked about hard it was to scrap a piece of writing that wasn't worki...

City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest  by Sophie Cunningham was one of the books I took on holidays a couple of m...

I do love to theme my holiday reads where possible. A recent week long Far North Queensland break in beautiful, sunny Port Douglas on the e...

There is a lot of space in Megan Hunter's The End We Start From . Known as a poet until now, her debut novel is written almost like a po...

Circle is one of those amazing, gorgeous picture books that I love and adore...right up until the very last page. But that last page does...

Speculative fiction is not usually my cup of tea, but I had heard interesting things about this debut author and his book of short stories. ...

I started reading This Changes Everything  way back when in November 2015 in preparation for Cop21 in Paris. Not that I planned to go or eve...

Way back when, I picked up a book that changed my life. I think the year was 1989 or 1990 and the book was The Green Consumer Guide by J...

The Reef: A Passionate History  does exactly as its cover promises - it delivers 12 'extraordinary tales' about Australia's Grea...