Susan’s Bookshelves: Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
I read it when it was first published in 1988. For a long time after The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), which is a...
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....
Once Mr E and I had become an item in 1967 he took me to meet his maternal grandparents and it was...
Gavin Maxwell’s thoughtful, tortured account of his childhood is forever associated in my mind with Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie because both...