Susan’s Bookshelves: Arthur Sullivan by Ian Bradley
When I first heard the name Arthur Sullivan he’d been dead barely half a century and the famous operettas he wrote with...
When I first heard the name Arthur Sullivan he’d been dead barely half a century and the famous operettas he wrote with...
People often say “Oh, I love Brideshead” or “It was all a bit Brideshead”. I suspect most of them are referring to...
We bibliophiles are a world wide club. I doubt, though, that I would have found Anne Fadiman’s delightful set of eighteen book-celebrating...
It’s Dickens at his angriest – at least in the first half of the novel. He is relentlessly (excessively?) sardonic and the...
It has long been my contention – and I always stressed it to students – that the best way of acquiring eclectic...
Walking with my sister recently, we bought takeaway cuppas in a waterside coffee shop to sustain us for the return route. On...
This is one of those novels which hits you so hard between the eyes that it permanently changes you and your attitude....
We’re in Tuscany in 1528 where a nun, Alessandra Cecchi, has just died having left instructions that she is not to be...