Susan’s Bookshelves: Unofficial Britain by Gareth E Rees
One of my self-imposed Susan’s Bookshelves briefs is to keep it as eclectic as possible. So if something a bit quirky comes...
One of my self-imposed Susan’s Bookshelves briefs is to keep it as eclectic as possible. So if something a bit quirky comes...
I read eclectically. And I always told my students that and advised them to do likewise. We all need variety and we...
Michael Faber’s 2014 novel was recommended to me by a relation who is both a deeply committed Christian and an academic theologian....
Although it dates from 2017. I recently heard Katherine Heiny talking, and answering audience questions, about Standard Deviation on Radio 4’s The...
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Brighton Dome, 31 December 2023 I’m not sure when New Year’s Eve got inextricably bound up with Vienna and,...
I found this slim volume wedged unobtrusively between Somerset Maugham and Michael Morpurgo in my sitting room fiction section. And I had...
One of my amateur musician friends recommended this warm, compelling book while she and I were drinking tea and eating biscuits during...
St Augustine’s Singers, Cambridge Conductor Lucas Elkin Michaelhouse 16 December 2023 This concert was a refreshing antidote to all the schmultzy, mass-produced...