Susan’s Bookshelves: Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Of course I’ve read Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves (although not lately). I had, however never got round to...
Of course I’ve read Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves (although not lately). I had, however never got round to...
Penelope Lively, now 89, is a very unusual writer. She was a highly successful children’s novelist, winning The Carnegie Medal for The...
Show: Death And The Maiden Society: Tower Theatre Company Venue: Tower Theatre Credits: Ariel Dorfman Death and the Maiden Although Ariel Dorfman’s 1991 play premiered at...
I’m a sucker for a short story and often think fondly of the ones I taught to the last couple of GCSE...
When I reread (and wrote about) Brave New World in January I kept thinking of his last novel, Island (1962). I’d read...
Arriving recently in North Yorkshire to stay with a friend, I found myself, in her sitting room, chatting to another woman who...
The Paradis Files Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre April 2022 Posted on April 14, 2022 Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824), roughly contemporary...
Until my late husband and I went to Vienna to visit galleries, attend concerts and walk the Beethoven trail a few years...