Susan’s Bookshelves: Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes
To be honest I didn’t know much about Marian Keyes until I read a review of her new book Again, Rachel and...
To be honest I didn’t know much about Marian Keyes until I read a review of her new book Again, Rachel and...
The final concert in BPO’s 2021/22 season opened, appropriately enough, with a simple, short statement of solidarity with the people of Ukraine....
Well it’s always been controversial. Nabokov’s famous 1955 story about a middle aged man’s obsession with pubescent or pre-pubescent girls was turned...
There’s much to enjoy in ENO’s new production of Cosi fan tutte with Phelim McDemott in the director’s seat and Karem Hasan...
There are two series of books I’ve always intended to read one day (unlike Lord of the Rings which I decided long...
It was my A level geography teacher, Miss Diana Raine, who told me to read the novels of Neville Shute (1899-1960). We...
I discovered Daphne du Maurier in my mid teens. Rebecca was warmly recommended by my mother who had read it, aged 16,...
I’ve always loved the poetry of Charles Causley (1917-2003). He is widely anthologised but although he received the Queen’s Gold Medal for...