Susan’s Bookshelves: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
I started reading the Booker shortlist as an annual project in the 1980s. I saw it a personal, horizon-widening exercise. As a...
I started reading the Booker shortlist as an annual project in the 1980s. I saw it a personal, horizon-widening exercise. As a...
I wouldn’t normally write about a single short story here but this one is such a gem I think it deserves a...
19 Ocober 2023 Well if you wanted the cobwebs blown away, this all American programme, part of a series entitled Let Freedom...
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine Conductor: Volodymyr Sirenko Pianist: Antonii Baryshevskyi Fairfield Halls, Croydon 18 Ocotber 2023 This orchestra must be supported...
It was one of my former A level student who emailed me around 2010. “Mrs Elkin, have you read this?” she asked...
If someone gives you short shrift in a new fangled way it probably puts you on your mettle because you don’t want...
The opening item in the first concert of Maidstone Symphony Orchestra’s 113th season was Smetana’s overture to The Bartered Bride. It’s...
What a novel! First published in 1854, when Dickens was 42, it exudes anger about social injustice from the first page to...