Susan’s Bookshelves: Chocolat by Joanne Harris
I first read Chocolat twenty three years ago when it was first published in 1999 and getting huge amounts of acclaim. All...
I first read Chocolat twenty three years ago when it was first published in 1999 and getting huge amounts of acclaim. All...
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...