Susan’s Bookshelves: The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
The Red Pony is one of John Steinbeck’s gut-wrenching novellas. I don’t know whether it’s still taught much in UK schools but...
The Red Pony is one of John Steinbeck’s gut-wrenching novellas. I don’t know whether it’s still taught much in UK schools but...
I first read Fingersmith first in 2002, curious because it had been shortlisted for both Booker and Orange prizes. I remember vividly...
OK, let’s get it out of the way. Kipling was an imperialist. He was also a fine story teller and poet. I...
I try to read eclectically although there are some genres (horror, science fiction and fantasy for example) that I really don’t like....
My father, not a lover of written fiction, preferred films. And one of his favourites was John Huston’s 1951 The African Queen...
I was sent a proof copy of this novel a few months ago and it published earlier this month. Historical fiction is...
Hilary Mantel, now in her late sixties, was a successful award- winning novelist long before she disappeared for 15 years to live...
I’m a sucker for sagas. So, around 1970 – once I’d worked through everything saga-ish by Daphne du Maurier, read all...