Susan’s Bookshelves: The Lost Father by Marina Warner
Every family has stories which are passed down through the generations. Typically, they are unconsciously reworked at each retelling and in the...
Every family has stories which are passed down through the generations. Typically, they are unconsciously reworked at each retelling and in the...
This beautiful, upbeat book was published in June this year and I picked it up following a recommendation on the Good Housekeeping...
Lines from Shakespeare’s Sonnets have a habit of lodging themselves in my head and playing on a repeat loop – poetic earworms...
It was the first Jane Austen novel I read after Northanger Abbey, which was my O Level set text. Part of the...
In 1990, a Crime Writers’ Association poll declared Josephine Tey’s 1948 novel one of the hundred best crime novels of all time....
It’s a hard hitting story about drug addiction, parentless children who get repeatedly rejected and the horrors of fostering in 1990s/early 2000s...
According to Amazon I have purchased Salley Vickers’ beautiful 2001 novel three times. I really can’t think why unless I gave it...
I read it when it was first published in 1988. For a long time after The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), which is a...