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Michael Braccia
Feb 22, 20161 min read
Book 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...
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Michael Braccia
Feb 15, 20161 min read
Book 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...
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Michael Braccia
Feb 12, 20161 min read
Book 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...
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Michael Braccia
Feb 12, 20161 min read
Book 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...
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Michael Braccia
Feb 12, 20162 min read
Book 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...
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Michael Braccia
Feb 12, 20161 min read
Book 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...
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Michael Braccia
Feb 12, 20161 min read
Book 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...
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Michael Braccia
Feb 12, 20161 min read
Review 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...
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Michael Braccia
Feb 12, 20162 min read
Book Review: 'A Beautiful Mind' by Sylvia Nasar
On 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...
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Michael Braccia
Feb 9, 20161 min read
SPECIAL FREE OFFER
I'm feeling generous. Between 11th and 13th February Amazon are holding a special promotion of my Kindle books. Both 'Could it be That...
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Michael Braccia
Jan 10, 20161 min read
Ben Stone practising 'Hero'
A good friend of mine, Ben Stone, invited me to his studio. Here, he's just practising a number called 'Hero' for the first time.
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Michael Braccia
Dec 24, 20155 min read
She Blames Me (from Banfield Tales)
She’s there again today. A tall, thin woman; probably in her twenties. An old-fashioned hairstyle, like they used to have during the...
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Michael Braccia
Dec 24, 20151 min read
Short story uploading soon
'She Blames Me', from 'Banfield Tales', the collection of short stories. - available on the next blog on this page.
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Michael Braccia
Dec 23, 20152 min read
Happy Christmas everyone!
I would like to wish all readers of my website blog a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. This is my first year as an author. I...
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Michael Braccia
Dec 18, 20151 min read
Braccia Banter 211215 - answers to quiz
Not too many managed to get these right. Some surprising names for groups of animals. Here goes - you'll have to tell me if you think...
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Michael Braccia
Dec 16, 20151 min read
Animal group names (Braccia Banter)
Now, don't worry, I will be giving you the answers, but can you give the group names for the following animals? You know the sort of...
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Michael Braccia
Dec 13, 20151 min read
Second Edition of 'Could it be That Way: Living with Autism'
A few people were not so keen on some elements of the first edition. We've made a few changes and also something of a surprise in stall....
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Michael Braccia
Dec 12, 20151 min read
The hand under Zutek's bum
For all Doctor Who fans. In an old episode of Doctor Who, a production assistant managed to leave his hand behind (pardon the pun) for...
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Michael Braccia
Dec 12, 20151 min read
Braccia Banter 141215
"People do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing". - a quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 -...
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Michael Braccia
Dec 5, 20151 min read
Extract from story 9 of 15 from Banfield Tales
Extract from 'Victor' (from the short story collection 'Banfield Tales'): "My wife calls me Victor Meldrew. You can probably guess why,...
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