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...
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...
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...
Arriving recently in North Yorkshire to stay with a friend, I found myself, in her sitting room, chatting to another woman who...
Until my late husband and I went to Vienna to visit galleries, attend concerts and walk the Beethoven trail a few years...