Susan’s Bookshelves: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
All the Graham Greene novels I read and enjoyed in my last teens, when I first discovered him, have sat on my...
All the Graham Greene novels I read and enjoyed in my last teens, when I first discovered him, have sat on my...
I remember it with such clarity. I spotted this book one winter evening in the Rainham Bookshop on my way home from...
We used to teach Nicholas Fisk’s 1974 novel, Grinny a lot when I first went to teach in Kent in the late...
Yes, I do sometimes read non-fiction. I recently heard Helena Attlee talking to Michael Berkley on Radio 3’s Private Passions and was...
I used to read a lot of Minette Walters’s crime thrillers and have fond memories of, for example, The Scold’s Bridle and The...
When Jill Paton Walsh, who died last year, wrote this novel she was already a well established and respected author of...
I first read The Machine Gunners soon after its publication and Carnegie Medal win in 1975. Within a year or two it...
I’ve read A Farewell to Arms only once before many decades ago. So I had forgotten most of the details although, of...