Susan’s Bookshelves: In the Wars by Waheed Arian
This is not the first time Radio 3’s Private Passions has led me to a book. Until I heard him talking to...
This is not the first time Radio 3’s Private Passions has led me to a book. Until I heard him talking to...
With Britain’s first ever Platinum Jubilee now only a week or two away, many of us are thinking about The Queen’s astonishing...
Arnold’s Tam O’Shanter overture is a brave choice for an opener because it must be a challenge to get all those potentially...
Of course I’ve read Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves (although not lately). I had, however never got round to...
Penelope Lively, now 89, is a very unusual writer. She was a highly successful children’s novelist, winning The Carnegie Medal for The...
Show: Death And The Maiden Society: Tower Theatre Company Venue: Tower Theatre Credits: Ariel Dorfman Death and the Maiden Although Ariel Dorfman’s 1991 play premiered at...
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...