Susan’s Bookshelves: A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
Ruth Rendell’s decision to write as Barbara Vine in parallel with her other titles gave her the scope to write a completely...
Ruth Rendell’s decision to write as Barbara Vine in parallel with her other titles gave her the scope to write a completely...
I remember the 1960 obscenity trial very clearly. My mother bought a copy of the book of the moment and carried it...
Even the title is clever – the deliberate omission of a question mark makes it ambivalent. It could be a question about...
People who read fiction know things. I used to tell my students that so often that they probably mouthed it behind my...
I’ve just finished it. Again. That must have been my ninth or tenth reading of Wuthering Heights and it still got right...
The Red Pony is one of John Steinbeck’s gut-wrenching novellas. I don’t know whether it’s still taught much in UK schools but...
I first read Fingersmith first in 2002, curious because it had been shortlisted for both Booker and Orange prizes. I remember vividly...
OK, let’s get it out of the way. Kipling was an imperialist. He was also a fine story teller and poet. I...