Susan’s Bookshelves (The Secret River by Kate Grenville)
I recently a few happy days staying with a friend in Cornwall. A former teaching colleague, she is a drama specialist who,...
I recently a few happy days staying with a friend in Cornwall. A former teaching colleague, she is a drama specialist who,...
Daniel Deronda (1876) came four years after Middlemarch and was George Eliot’s last novel. She died in 1880, aged 61. I hadn’t...
I have fallen in love with the novels of Mike Gayle. I find them totally compelling to the extent that once I...
I read this book when it was shortlisted for the (then) Man Booker prize back in 2012. A friend recently mentioned that...
I have a nonagenarian friend who worked for a mere sixty years or so behind the scenes in theatre. She seems to...
Anna Maria della Pieta (1696-1782) was a famous Italian violinist for most of the eighteenth century. Probably the child of a sex...
It’s unusual for me to feature a newly published young adult title here but I was bowled over by this one and...
The friend who recommended this book didn’t tell me what it was about. She simply emailed “You might like this”. She was...