Susan’s Bookshelves: Big Lies by Mark Kurlansky
I’ve been reviewing for The School Librarian, a quarterly magazine published by the School Library Association, for over 30 years. It’s voluntary...
I’ve been reviewing for The School Librarian, a quarterly magazine published by the School Library Association, for over 30 years. It’s voluntary...
I have loved and admired (most of) Margaret Atwood’s fiction for a very long time. She is, of course, supremely intelligent and...
Of course, as an amateur violinist, I’ve always been interested in violin repertoire and have known – at least as a listener...
I was given this book by a friend who’d abandoned it because she said she didn’t like way it “moves about all...
Astrid is an elderly actress who hasn’t worked for decades but has played the National and the RSC in big roles. Today...
Kevin Farrell and Steven Worbey are talented, classically trained pianists, who believe that recitals and performances don’t have to be po-faced or...
At quarter past two, on a Wednesday afternoon in the 1990s Anna’s eighteen year old sister disappears. Police are involved, enquiries are...
I knew nothing about Kate Griffin’s 2023 best seller although it had, apparently, a great deal of acclaim last year. I simply...