Susan’s Bookshelves: Should We Stay Or Should We Go by Lion...
Even the title is clever – the deliberate omission of a question mark makes it ambivalent. It could be a question about...
Even the title is clever – the deliberate omission of a question mark makes it ambivalent. It could be a question about...
People who read fiction know things. I used to tell my students that so often that they probably mouthed it behind my...
I’ve just finished it. Again. That must have been my ninth or tenth reading of Wuthering Heights and it still got right...
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...