Susan’s Bookshelves: Hard Times by Charles Dickens
What a novel! First published in 1854, when Dickens was 42, it exudes anger about social injustice from the first page to...
What a novel! First published in 1854, when Dickens was 42, it exudes anger about social injustice from the first page to...
Photograph credit: Camilla Greenwell Nicola Benedetti plays Brahms South Bank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Philharmonia Conductor: Cristian Macelaru Sunday 01 October The...
Whenever I’m in touch – and that’s quite often – with my dear old college friend who lives in Brisbane, we always...
Every family has stories which are passed down through the generations. Typically, they are unconsciously reworked at each retelling and in the...
This beautiful, upbeat book was published in June this year and I picked it up following a recommendation on the Good Housekeeping...
Lines from Shakespeare’s Sonnets have a habit of lodging themselves in my head and playing on a repeat loop – poetic earworms...
It was the first Jane Austen novel I read after Northanger Abbey, which was my O Level set text. Part of the...
In 1990, a Crime Writers’ Association poll declared Josephine Tey’s 1948 novel one of the hundred best crime novels of all time....