My final post for 2017 is a book stack! I have to admit, I love doing these! Books (like craft supplies) often live in stacks around my home - where I pulled some off the shelf to loan someone, or put together a TBR, or even just because the covers/spines look good together! So it is really fun to share them here, and...

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Firstly, I'd like to apologise for the not so catchy title of this post haha - it's the week between Christmas and New Year, and my brain barely even knows which day it is, let alone how to word eloquently haha. But, anyway, I've been starting to try and keep track of the new #loveozya releases on their way in 2018, and I thought...

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I was lucky enough in December to win a couple of book giveaways on social media, including one from Allen & Unwin for this dystopian #loveozYA novel - Pandora Jones: Admission.Now, I hadn't heard of this book before I won it in the giveaway, but when it arrived it sounded so good I started reading right away. And I was hooked right from the prologue. It's...

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I'm a day early with my book stack this week, because I wanted to share some #loveozya books that I think would make perfect gifts for the readers in your lives, just in case anyone is doing some (very) last minute shopping! So, here are my top 3...Begin, End, Begin - Edited by Danielle BinksThis is a fantastic anthology of #loveozya short stories from...

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Darcy Shaughnessy has gotten used to her overbearing brothers chasing away any man she wants to date. But a chance meeting with a brooding - and deliciously handsome - artist is about to make this holiday season one to remember.There's only one thing Benjamin Tanner loves more than his woodcarving: solitude. Then he gets snowed in with Darcy in his cozy cabin in...

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Here we are at the pointy end of the festive reading season, and I'm ready to admit that my Christmassy TBR requires some serious trimming and prioritisation! And so here is my updated TBR for up until Christmas...Christmas at the Cat CaféBecause how can I resist a title like that!The ChristmasaurusThis just sounds really fun and silly! It was one of just a...

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It's no secret I love a nice big cup of tea when I'm settling in for a serious reading session. I also love spicy teas, so Christmas is my peak tea time each year - that cinnamon and clove and star anise and all those other Christmassy flavours. This year I've tried a bunch and I though I'd share my top 3 here...

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Growing up on Hope Island, Eden Lancaster always believed that if you wished hard enough for something, dreams really could come true. But Eden’s greatest wish is also her biggest secret: she has been completely in love with her childhood friend, the charming and attractive Dougie Harrison, for as long as she can remember. And he has no idea. When Dougie leaves his successful life in New York...

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Most of the books I read specifically to review come through NetGalley and are ebooks. But when I saw Harlequin had a collection of Australian Christmas short stories coming out - and when I saw how gorgeous the cover is - I wrote to them to ask if I could have a paperback. And it is really as lovely in real life as I...

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Yesterday I started reading Katie Fforde's new Christmas short story collection, The Christmas Stocking and Other Stories. I picked this up not only because I'm all about the festive reads at the moment, but also because it does double duty by ticking off one of my outstanding tasks for the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge - Read a collection of stories by a woman.And of course...

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Flora Phillips has an excuse for every disaster in her life; she was abandoned as a new-born on a doorstep on Christmas Eve 1984. Her philosophy is simple: if your mother doesn't want you – who will?Now a thirty-year-old, without a boyfriend, a career or home she figures she might as well tackle the biggest question of them all – who is she?...

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I think I've mentioned here already how much I love a Christmas Hallmark movie, and tonight's Christmas book is one that I could absolutely see adapted for the small festive screen!Here's the overview (from Goodreads)The flames of memory always seem to glow a little brighter during the holidays. Perhaps that's why this time of year is so difficult for airline heiress Ivy Macintosh, as...

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From Goodreads... When Lily Ambrose needs a fresh start, she remembers her happy childhood holidays in the seaside town of Shipley, and decides it’s the perfect place for a cosy Christmas hideaway.Keen to make new friends, Lily promises to source a celebrity to turn on the Christmas lights. But when reality star Ollie turns up with his cameraman Craig, with plans to make a TV...

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Tonight's Christmassy review is a three-for-one special deal =)  I liked the look of The Girl Who Saved Christmas when I saw it on NetGalley, and on reading I loved it so much I got the other two in the series from my local library as soon as I could!When Amelia wants a wish to come true she knows just the man to ask -...

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We all know I love a good cover, and alongside that I'm a big fan of a pun in a title and a cat on the cover, so it's kind of surprising that I don't read more cosy mysteries! This week, though, I do have two cosy Christmassy mysteries to share with you! Both of these I requested review copies of based solely...

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This week Cath Crowley's "Words in Deep Blue" was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards  in the Young Adult category. Since it's sitting on my #loveozya TBR shelf, I thought it would be fun to pull out all the books with blue covers from the same shelf.... Well, I had no idea there were so many blue-covered books on my shelf! This must be...

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You wouldn't know it from my November/December TBR pile, but I'm a relative newcomer to the cosy Christmas romance/romcom novel. A few years ago (probably in 2013 when I was pregnant at Christmas and had all the feelings!) I got really into Hallmark Christmas movies -you know, those super sweet, small town America (or New York), quirky character, single mum meets handsome dad...

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I haven't shared a Sunday book stack for so long, partly because I've been doing so much reading on my Kindle - which obviously doesn't translate so well to a stack!  Today, though, I pulled out some of the Christmas books on my TBR for November and December and took a snap. Some of these covers are so lovely!There are a couple in...

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Hello and welcome to Christmas at Bookish Bron =)I thought I'd start with a sweet pair of Christmassy stories from Tilly Tennant: A Very Vintage Christmas With bright red hair and an infectious smile, Dodie is a hopeless romantic and absolutely one of a kind, just like the pieces in her shop. When Dodie finds a love letter in the pocket of an old woollen coat, she makes...

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Before we kick off the festive reviews, I've got two not quite Christmassy books to share. These were both books I received for free through NetGalley for review, and both ones I requested for review because I thought they were Christmas romances. Whilst they didn't end up being so, they both had some of those same characteristics I love in a festive read...

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Helllooooooo and welcome to November!I had a MASSIVE reading month in October, getting through 11 whole books (and most of the way through a twelfth!).My favourite book of November was The Last Namsara (which I reviewed here last weekend) - gosh this book was fantastic! Between the Read Harder Challenge and reviewing, I have been reading less YA fantasy than usual, and this...

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 ** I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own** Book description (from Goodreads)   In the beginning, there was the Namsara: the child of sky and spirit, who carried love and laughter wherever he went. But where there is light, there must be darkness—and so there was also the Iskari. The child...

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** I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own** Here's another book I picked up on NetGalley on a whim due to a beautiful cover! Usually I would share the book description at this point, but sometimes I really enjoy going in blind, and this is one of those instances where I feel...

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** I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own** Book description (from Goodreads) It's 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle.Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There...

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** I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own** So, this time I'm sharing just part of the book description from Goodreads - by all means pop on over and check it out if you want to see more =) Most people have no idea goblins live in the woods around the small...

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