Susan’s Bookshelves – A Piece of Work: Playing Shakes...
Over the years I have read many books by actors describing their adventures with, and thoughts about, Shakespeare: Michael Pennington, Antony Sher,...
Over the years I have read many books by actors describing their adventures with, and thoughts about, Shakespeare: Michael Pennington, Antony Sher,...
Famous, respected and popular as he is I had never, until now, got round to reading any Robert Harris. It did occur...
Of course I grabbed this book as soon as it was published. I interviewed Sheku Kanneh-Mason shortly after he won BBC Young...
I read The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and was moved by it, soon after it was published in January 2013. It...
I’ve never quite got into Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series but I’ve happily lapped up several of her standalones and so was...
It was a heart-warming pleasure to come back to The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (2006) There is nothing pretentiously “literary” about...
The arrival for review of Rachel Bowlby’s new book Emile Zola, part of Oxford University Press’s Writing Modern Life series, reminded me...
I recently spent a few delightful days in Cornwall where my host/friend, with whom I share a love of books and words,...