Brona's Books

  I had no idea that Bill Hayes was working on another scenes of New York book that would focus on the March-April Covid-19 lockdown of 2020...

What a wonderful reading experience! From the beautifully designed hardcover dust jacket (the gold seams actually sparkle in real life), to ...

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

Memories of the Future by Siri Husvedt has lived with me for a few months now. The slowness of my reading is in no way indicative of any la...

So I've just started reading Siri Hustvedt's latest novel, Memories of the Future . I'm inclined to anticipate enjoyment of Hu...

I fell in love with Karen Foxlee's writing in 2014 when I read and loved Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy . A Most Magical Girl confirm...

The Guggenheim Mystery is the follow up story to Siobhan Dowd's 2007 The London Eye Mystery . Dowd sadly died of cancer at the end of 2...

I hadn't realised that Truman Capote's  Breakfast at Tiffany's was a novella - only 100 pages in my sweet little pink Popular P...

So many various and varied roads led me to read What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt this week. Firstly, she is one of my dear friend's f...

Insomniac City  by Bill Hayes was my third bloody brilliant book in a row. I went from the stunning award winning Museum of Modern Love b...

Usually I prefer to start a book knowing as little about it as possible, especially contemporary fiction. I like to come at it without any...

A good memoir is a true delight and I love it when I find one that catches me by surprise. Memoirs, good memoirs, have the power to heal...

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos got a rave review on the ABC's Bookclub program early on this year. I've been saving it for my we...

My eldest niece is about to turn 10. I've been waiting for this moment for quite some time. In my tenth year, my aunt  gave me two boo...

Usually, I prefer to read the book before I see the movie, but in this case our hot summer weather beat me to the punch. Last weekend wa...