Susan’s Bookshelves: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
OK, let’s get it out of the way. Kipling was an imperialist. He was also a fine story teller and poet. I...
OK, let’s get it out of the way. Kipling was an imperialist. He was also a fine story teller and poet. I...
I try to read eclectically although there are some genres (horror, science fiction and fantasy for example) that I really don’t like....
BBC Prom: Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Emelyanychev- 1st Augus Very much a concert for discerning grown ups, this event presented Mozart’s last...
My father, not a lover of written fiction, preferred films. And one of his favourites was John Huston’s 1951 The African Queen...
I was sent a proof copy of this novel a few months ago and it published earlier this month. Historical fiction is...
Hilary Mantel, now in her late sixties, was a successful award- winning novelist long before she disappeared for 15 years to live...
It is a great pleasure to see and hear young artists at the very beginning of their careers making and sharing fine...
I’m a sucker for sagas. So, around 1970 – once I’d worked through everything saga-ish by Daphne du Maurier, read all...