Susan’s Bookshelves: The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
In 1990, a Crime Writers’ Association poll declared Josephine Tey’s 1948 novel one of the hundred best crime novels of all time....
In 1990, a Crime Writers’ Association poll declared Josephine Tey’s 1948 novel one of the hundred best crime novels of all time....
It’s a hard hitting story about drug addiction, parentless children who get repeatedly rejected and the horrors of fostering in 1990s/early 2000s...
According to Amazon I have purchased Salley Vickers’ beautiful 2001 novel three times. I really can’t think why unless I gave it...
I read it when it was first published in 1988. For a long time after The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), which is a...
Of course I’ve read Julian Barnes before. I particularly remember enjoying Arthur & George in 2005 during a week in a gîte...
I’ve been keen on the operas of WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan for most of my life. It began with The Mikado...
I heard Kit de Waal talking to Michael Berkley on Radio 3’s Private Passions recently, having not come across her before, 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...