Susan’s Bookshelves: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’...
I read Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the first in the series, in 1997 because people were beginning to talk about...
I read Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the first in the series, in 1997 because people were beginning to talk about...
I learned a huge amount about Islam and about barriers/ semi-permeable membrane between cultures from Osman Yousefzada’s frank and thoughtful memoir whose...
Agatha Christie was the first grown-up author I ever read. My mother was keen on her books and one day I picked...
In 1968 I went to teach in a challenging inner London boys’ secondary school. The journey from my refined grammar school to...
Rose Tremain’s Lily was published last year and I’ve just read it in paperback which, unusually, was cheaper than the Kindle version....
Of course I’ve read the occasional John Agard poem in anthologies. And one of the schools I taught in invited Grace Nichols...
Northanger Abbey was my O level set text and my introduction to Jane Austen. I was hooked. I read the other five...
It blew me away when I first read it nearly twenty years ago. And rereading The Kite Runner now, the effect was...