Susan’s Bookshelves: Opening Worlds by various authors
I’m a sucker for a short story and often think fondly of the ones I taught to the last couple of GCSE...
I’m a sucker for a short story and often think fondly of the ones I taught to the last couple of GCSE...
When I reread (and wrote about) Brave New World in January I kept thinking of his last novel, Island (1962). I’d read...
Arriving recently in North Yorkshire to stay with a friend, I found myself, in her sitting room, chatting to another woman who...
The Paradis Files Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre April 2022 Posted on April 14, 2022 Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824), roughly contemporary...
Until my late husband and I went to Vienna to visit galleries, attend concerts and walk the Beethoven trail a few years...
To be honest I didn’t know much about Marian Keyes until I read a review of her new book Again, Rachel and...
The final concert in BPO’s 2021/22 season opened, appropriately enough, with a simple, short statement of solidarity with the people of Ukraine....
Well it’s always been controversial. Nabokov’s famous 1955 story about a middle aged man’s obsession with pubescent or pre-pubescent girls was turned...