Michael BracciaFeb 28, 20161 minBook Review: Trigger Warning by Neil GaimanTrigger Warning - short story fictions and disturbances I’m new to Neil Gaiman’s work, but I do know that he loves writing short stories....
Michael BracciaFeb 22, 20161 minBook review: The World According to Bertie (Alexander McCall Smith)The 4th book in the ‘Scotland Street’ series and it doesn’t disappoint. McCall Smith is the master of the understated phrase, and when...
Michael BracciaFeb 15, 20161 minBook Review: The Blackwater Lightship (Colm Toibin)Colm Toibin – The Blackwater Lightship A story about family relationships and family tragedy. Helen has not spoken to her mother for a...
Michael BracciaFeb 12, 20161 minBook Review: The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins)Paula Hawkins gets into the minds of three women, cleverly changing viewpoint as the story unfolds. Rachel, Megan and Anna. They all...
Michael BracciaFeb 12, 20161 minBook Review: Life After Life (Kate Atkinson)477 pages that I couldn’t put down. I’m a slow reader, but this novel was digested in 4 days. Kate Atkinson provides us with a sideways...
Michael BracciaFeb 12, 20162 minBook Review: Howard Jacobson: 'Coming from behind'Wonderfully un-PC and very funny. You will discover on the first page of chapter one why Sefton Goldberg is ‘as blind as a school...
Michael BracciaFeb 12, 20161 minBook Review: Karen Joy Fowler 'We are all completely beside ourselves'Karen Joy Fowler constructs a fictional story partly based on personal experience of living with a family steeped in psychology. I will...
Michael BracciaFeb 12, 20161 minBook review - 'Real Monsters' (Liam Brown)In his author questionnaire at the end of the book, Liam Brown tells us that ‘Danny’s head was a pretty horrendous place to spend any...
Michael BracciaFeb 12, 20161 minReview of 'The Black Country' (Kerry Hadley-Pryce')I met Kerry at Dudley Library in November at a writers' networking morning. She read from her novel, 'The Black Country', and along with...
Michael BracciaFeb 12, 20162 minBook Review: 'A Beautiful Mind' by Sylvia NasarOn 23rd May 2015, John Forbes Nash and his wife, Alicia, were killed in a car crash while in a taxi in New Jersey, United States. Sylvia...