Susan’s Bookshelves: The Hollow Crown, Shakespeare on how l...
Shakespeare’s plays are full of leaders who are often Kings. Eliot A Cohen is a highly experienced and eminent US government adviser...
Shakespeare’s plays are full of leaders who are often Kings. Eliot A Cohen is a highly experienced and eminent US government adviser...
Philharmonia Manfred Honeck Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre There is something richly incisive about Manfred Honeck’s conducting and...
Maidstone Symphony Orchestra Brian Wright Ben Goldscheider Mote Hall, Maidstone This imaginatively programmed concert gave us three mid-twentieth century works all premiered...
Bruckner Symphony no 7 RAM Academy Symphony Orchestra Ryan Wrigglesworth Dukes Hall, Royal Academy of Music It was a real pleasure...
The friend who recommended this book to me didn’t explain what it was about. She simply told me so fervently how much...
Although Noel Streatfeild’s best known (and first) novel was published back in 1936, I didn’t read it in childhood. I was not...
It all started when, in my usual wordy way, I used the word “olfactory” on the family WhatsApp group. I loathe, detest,...
A brick of a book, Caledonian Road (2024) is almost Dickensian in scope. Loosely rooted in the eponymous, diverse Islington street, it...