Susan’s Bookshelves (Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee)
This is a book which almost passed me by despite its lasting fame and popularity as an English curriculum text in secondary...
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...
I’d spent a night at my younger son’s house in Brighton – as I often do – because I’d reviewed a show...
A dear, pretty well-read friend, a generation older than me used to scoff at me in the 1970s, when we worked together,...
Many of these blogs are about re-reads. As anyone who is kind enough to be a regular reader will know, I am...
Forget David Jason and Bradley Walsh. Go back to HE Bates’s 1958 short novel. No dramatisation will ever capture the glorious, hilarious,...
I read first read The Group in 1963 not long after it was published. I was a callow, shallow sixteen year old....
After I’d been accepted at Bishop Otter College to train as a teacher in 1965, I was sent a general reading list....