Susan’s Bookshelves: Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Ma...
Margaret Atwood is sparklingly good company. She’s witty, affable, down to earth and personable. I’ve always sensed this from her novels, short...
Margaret Atwood is sparklingly good company. She’s witty, affable, down to earth and personable. I’ve always sensed this from her novels, short...
I usually try to feature at least one seasonal book each December. Having now run though all the obvious stories known to...
Tennyson and I go back a long way. He was my O Level poet and I remember loving the sensuous musicality of...
Jeremy Vine’s is not a name I had, until now, associated with novels. Neither had the surprised friend who drew my attention...
I recently saw and reviewed a stage adaptation of Frankenstein which re-invented Victor Frankenstein as Victoria and seemed to omit rather a...
I had never read a Jilly Cooper novel nor seen any sort of dramatisation. It simply didn’t sound my sort of thing...
I first met Guy Holloway many (thirty?) years ago when I visited the Harrodian School on a newspaper assignment, probably the Telegraph...
I’ve tried reading Michael Arditti before and, frankly, not warmed to his fiction. But I was curious about The Choice because it...