Susan’s Bookshelves: Old Rage by Sheila Hancock
I’m ashamed to admit that I don’t graze in bookshops much these days. Most of my browsing is now online or I...
I’m ashamed to admit that I don’t graze in bookshops much these days. Most of my browsing is now online or I...
Forget Visconti, Dirk Bogarde and Mahler. It’s very interesting to read what Thomas Mann actually wrote in his 1911 long short story/novella....
Once Mr E and I had become an item in 1967 he took me to meet his maternal grandparents and it was...
Gavin Maxwell’s thoughtful, tortured account of his childhood is forever associated in my mind with Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie because both...
I grew up knowing that was a 17th century Civil War in England in which Parliament fought the King and eventually won....
We sang Paul Spier’s 1953 setting of Pied Beauty when I was in the senior choir at Sydenham High School in around...
This is a book which almost passed me by despite its lasting fame and popularity as an English curriculum text in secondary...
Cranes Flying South was written in 1899 and its Russian author, Nikolay Nikolaevich Karazin was a military officer and painter (specialising in...