Susan’s Bookshelves: Chocolat by Joanne Harris
I first read Chocolat twenty three years ago when it was first published in 1999 and getting huge amounts of acclaim. All...
I first read Chocolat twenty three years ago when it was first published in 1999 and getting huge amounts of acclaim. All...
This is not the first time Radio 3’s Private Passions has led me to a book. Until I heard him talking to...
With Britain’s first ever Platinum Jubilee now only a week or two away, many of us are thinking about The Queen’s astonishing...
Arnold’s Tam O’Shanter overture is a brave choice for an opener because it must be a challenge to get all those potentially...
Of course I’ve read Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves (although not lately). I had, however never got round to...
Penelope Lively, now 89, is a very unusual writer. She was a highly successful children’s novelist, winning The Carnegie Medal for The...
Show: Death And The Maiden Society: Tower Theatre Company Venue: Tower Theatre Credits: Ariel Dorfman Death and the Maiden Although Ariel Dorfman’s 1991 play premiered at...
I’m a sucker for a short story and often think fondly of the ones I taught to the last couple of GCSE...