Susan’s Bookshelves: Grinny by Nicholas Fisk
We used to teach Nicholas Fisk’s 1974 novel, Grinny a lot when I first went to teach in Kent in the late...
We used to teach Nicholas Fisk’s 1974 novel, Grinny a lot when I first went to teach in Kent in the late...
Yes, I do sometimes read non-fiction. I recently heard Helena Attlee talking to Michael Berkley on Radio 3’s Private Passions and was...
Maidstone Symphony Orchestra Mote Hall 27th November 2021 Cheerful Rossini is a good, warm antidote when the weather’s wintry and we’ve just,...
I used to read a lot of Minette Walters’s crime thrillers and have fond memories of, for example, The Scold’s Bridle and The...
When Jill Paton Walsh, who died last year, wrote this novel she was already a well established and respected author of...
Great Baroque: Playing with Fire Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Brighton Dome November 7th 2021 The BPO was scaled down to Baroque proportions with...
I first read The Machine Gunners soon after its publication and Carnegie Medal win in 1975. Within a year or two it...
I’ve read A Farewell to Arms only once before many decades ago. So I had forgotten most of the details although, of...