Susan’s Bookshelves: A Very Short Introduction to Nietzsche...
I have heard Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra performed live twice this year and I’ve reviewed it – woefully conscious of my...
I have heard Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra performed live twice this year and I’ve reviewed it – woefully conscious of my...
I have been in love with Saki’s short stories for many years. And I come back to them frequently because they are...
I was recently on a four-day string quartet workshop course led by the Tedesca Quartet, something I do fairly regularly. In one...
This engaging novel explores the relationship between Charles Dickens and his wife, Catherine Hogarth, partly through the eyes of her supportive but...
Carrie Cole, who narrates, is a doctor – specifically an ambitious, committed surgeon – and Rosie Walsh has researched the details of...
This book is extraordinary. Rarely have I read anything so immaculately researched and compellingly written. Published in April 2026 and strap-lined “A...
I have probably read Great Expectations a dozen times. It featured on the English course at Bishop Otter College. I later studied...
It was one of the regular readers of Susan’s Bookshelves who drew my attention to this 2001 novel. He wondered what I...