Susan’s Bookshelves: Windmill Hill by Lucy Atkins
Astrid is an elderly actress who hasn’t worked for decades but has played the National and the RSC in big roles. Today...
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...
Whenever I return to Dickens, I wonder why I don’t reread him more often. All that glittering irony, rich characterisation and accurate...
This 2024 publication presents eleven short stories which look at woman’s experience from a range of angles. Some of the eight characters...
I recently reviewed a 2024 children’s book for a magazine in which I said it was like Charlotte’s Web crossed with Harry...
My attention was drawn to Valérie Perrin’s 2020, warm, moving novel about love and loss by a French friend who read it...