I feel like the last little while has been fantastic for stories that examine societies' controlling of women and their bodies - the success of The Handmaid's Tale tv adaptation, as well as book like The Power and Red Clocks. Christina Dalcher's Vox. is the latest release to take on this topic, and just might be my favourite! From the Harlequin website: Silence...

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I spent most of this weekend at the Canberra Writers Festival. Of course I picked up a couple of new books - have you even been to a writers festival if you don't come home with a stack of new books?  I have loads to say about the festival, the sessions I saw, and the books I bought, but I just wanted to...

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I was totally horse mad as a kid, and I still love to indulge in a horsey novel so I jumped at the chance to review The Promise Horse by Jackie Merchant, which is a new middle grade book out from Walker Books... Harry is tired of being the tall new kid with red hair, big feet and freckles; the one with the...

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Hello! A very super quick post today just to share that my latest Bron's Book Stack column is up on the Living Arts Canberra website! Head over to check out what I had to say about my favourite adult and young adult fiction and picture book for the month of July! (And then come back here and let me know what you thought!)...

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Last week I had the absolute pleasure of attending the launch of local Canberra author Sam Hawke's debut novel, City of Lies. I was lucky enough to get my hand on an early copy AND managed to read it before the launch!  It was a fantastic evening. The event was held at Harry Hartog Booksellers in Woden, and there were soooo many people...

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Earlier this week I shared my thoughts on Marita Smith's debut #loveozya sci-fi series Kindred Ties (spoiler alert: I loved reading these! Click here to check out that post if you haven't seen it yet). I'm thrilled that Marita was kind enough to share some of her thoughts in response to some questions I asked about Emergence and Convergence. Check out my very...

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This week I've started reading Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree series with my four-year-old and we are loving it so much! So I though this would be a good chance to catch up on a Bookish Bloggers Unite blog topic I missed a few weeks ago, when everyone shared some influential books from their childhood. I absolutely adored Enid Blyton's books as a child...

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Ok, I could not tell you why this review has taken me so long to get written, because I have been talking to EVERYONE about these books since I finished them! But I've finally managed to get my most of my thoughts down to share! I have also been  in touch with the author, Marita Smith, and she was kind enough to answer...

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This week's book stack is my (probably rather optimistic!) 'to be read' pile for August. I'm sure I've talked about TBRs here before, and the fact that I'm not really excellent at sticking to them, but I do like to have a stack to chose from when I'm looking for my next book. So, here is what I've pulled together for August... This...

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