Susan’s Bookshelves: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
It’s a hard hitting story about drug addiction, parentless children who get repeatedly rejected and the horrors of fostering in 1990s/early 2000s...
It’s a hard hitting story about drug addiction, parentless children who get repeatedly rejected and the horrors of fostering in 1990s/early 2000s...
According to Amazon I have purchased Salley Vickers’ beautiful 2001 novel three times. I really can’t think why unless I gave it...
I read it when it was first published in 1988. For a long time after The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), which is a...
Of course I’ve read Julian Barnes before. I particularly remember enjoying Arthur & George in 2005 during a week in a gîte...
I’ve been keen on the operas of WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan for most of my life. It began with The Mikado...
I heard Kit de Waal talking to Michael Berkley on Radio 3’s Private Passions recently, having not come across her before, I...
I’m ashamed to admit that I don’t graze in bookshops much these days. Most of my browsing is now online or I...
Forget Visconti, Dirk Bogarde and Mahler. It’s very interesting to read what Thomas Mann actually wrote in his 1911 long short story/novella....