Susan’s Bookshelves: The Salt Path
Walking with my sister recently, we bought takeaway cuppas in a waterside coffee shop to sustain us for the return route. On...
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....
Shakespeare Re-shaped – Opera Up Close Posted on April 12, 2021 The second of a pair of coffee concerts from Opera Up Close –at a...
Calming the Tempest – Opera Up Close Posted on April 12, 2021 One of a series of online coffee concerts from Opera Up...
We’re in Tuscany in 1528 where a nun, Alessandra Cecchi, has just died having left instructions that she is not to be...
Oxford Lieder Winterreise Posted on March 2, 2021 All the way from the resonant arpeggios of Gute Nacht to the haunting, wistful A...
My third granddaughter (GD3), aged 9 and an avid reader, recently decided and declared that the books she likes best are about...
Rumer Godden’s powerful, unsentimental 1955 novel is about children. But, however it might have been marketed, it doesn’t feel like a children’s...