Susan’s Bookshelves: Grinny by Nicholas Fisk
We used to teach Nicholas Fisk’s 1974 novel, Grinny a lot when I first went to teach in Kent in the late...
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...
I don’t know how many times I’ve read Silas Marner (1861). I adored it when I first read it at college and...
Of course I’m well aware that Richard Osman’s books don’t exactly need a plug from me. They are worldwide, record breaking best...