Susan’s Bookshelves: The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable
Anna Maria della Pieta (1696-1782) was a famous Italian violinist for most of the eighteenth century. Probably the child of a sex...
Anna Maria della Pieta (1696-1782) was a famous Italian violinist for most of the eighteenth century. Probably the child of a sex...
It’s unusual for me to feature a newly published young adult title here but I was bowled over by this one and...
The friend who recommended this book didn’t tell me what it was about. She simply emailed “You might like this”. She was...
Naomi Jacob, who died in 1964, wrote seven books about the Gollantz family who were Jewish antique dealers in London and, at...
Martin Walker’s Bruno books are effectively a homage to Perigord in the Dordogne where the author lives. And I’m with him. I...
Confession: I never warmed to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass as a child. I think it’s because it’s...
I recently gave a talk at Catford Library about my latest book, All Booked Up. It followed a meeting of the library’s...
I am normally chary about agreeing to read self-published books especially if they’re by people I know, however peripherally. I’ve come unstuck...