Author: Brigette Cohen
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Nano 2025 Reflection
I cant write a book in month. I dont want to. But Nano still presents an opportunity to focus on my writing and to learn something new about my process.
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Story Telling and the Scientific Method
The principles of fiction help us do better science, and the principles of science help us to write better stories
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Literary Fiction Pretending to be Fantasy
Dont be fooled by the pretty cover this is literary fiction all the way. But does use the fantasy elements to good effect.
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2025 in Books
A reading year characterised by remarkable and life-changing books.
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The Greyness of Consent
Writing good dubious consent is about depth and caring. I explore books that get it right, and that get it appallingly wrong.
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A Mother’s Love Song
The Whale’s Last Song by Joanne Fedler It’s a new year, fresh and shiny with potential, so I thought we could start off with one of the most gorgeous, hopeful books. Something whose influence carried me through the last few months of last year. I have found it very hard to describe what this book…
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Oblique Conversations
Nuanced, immersive, and macabre. This book delivers so much more than the first. Settle down for a long discussion of what it all meant and why I loved it.
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Undermining Your Own Themes
Not worth the hype. A story that is constantly undermining its own themes with strange changes of direction.
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The Great War in Context
An eye-opening investigation of the Great War, arguing that nearly everything we think about it is misleading at best.
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Too Many Themes
A queer, Jewish, immigrant story that falls victim to a confused vision and a muddled structure.