Susan’s Bookshelves: Fairy Stories by Hans Christian Andersen
A few weeks ago, I took my younger pair of granddaughters – aged 11 and 7 – to Little Angel Theatre in...
A few weeks ago, I took my younger pair of granddaughters – aged 11 and 7 – to Little Angel Theatre in...
I wrote about John Agard’s new volume of poetry a few weeks ago and wouldn’t normally return to the same author so...
The best short stories are quirky and – in a volume which is new to my bookshelves – Stewart Ross’s lockdown project...
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Brighton Dome 2 October 2022 Posted on October 3, 2022 Featuring a programme of American classics, the first concert of...
Anya Seyton. What a historical novelist she was. Born in 1904 in Manhattan, she died in 1990 in Connecticut. My attention was...
Josephine Tey straddled two genres with her The Daughter of Time in 1951: crime fiction meets historical novel. Of course others have...
Even if you don’t care for fantasy (and that’s me) it is inarguable that CS Lewis’s seven Narnia books grabbed millions of...
A few weeks ago I had lunch with a someone who used to be a colleague and has morphed into a friend....