Susan’s Bookshelves: Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner – mistress of understatement, crystalline prose and unfulfilled older women – won the Booker Prize with Hotel du Lac in...
Anita Brookner – mistress of understatement, crystalline prose and unfulfilled older women – won the Booker Prize with Hotel du Lac in...
First published in 1958, Things Fall Apart is a moving account of what happened in the late 19th century Nigeria when colonial...
Earlier this year I read Frances Quinn’s That Bonesetter Woman, on the strength of a Sunday Times review, and liked it a...
Like nearly everyone else I read Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light initially with excitement and...
A few weeks ago, I took my younger pair of granddaughters – aged 11 and 7 – to Little Angel Theatre in...
I wrote about John Agard’s new volume of poetry a few weeks ago and wouldn’t normally return to the same author so...
The best short stories are quirky and – in a volume which is new to my bookshelves – Stewart Ross’s lockdown project...
Anya Seyton. What a historical novelist she was. Born in 1904 in Manhattan, she died in 1990 in Connecticut. My attention was...