Susan’s Bookshelves (The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths)
I bought this book on autopilot because I’m an enthusiastic Elly Griffiths fan. I love her nonchalant present tense style, her wit...
I bought this book on autopilot because I’m an enthusiastic Elly Griffiths fan. I love her nonchalant present tense style, her wit...
Journalist Tim Devlin is once more on an investigative trail of nursery rhymes and, as ever, the depth of his research is...
When I arrived at Bishop Otter College, Chichester to train as a teacher in 1965 all I knew about Ibsen was Grieg’s...
I recommend this 2024 novel unreservedly. I read it because I’ve enjoyed Elif Shafak’s previous work but there has never been anything...
John Steinbeck’s great gift is to be able to wrench the guts out of you and leave you moved, to near speechlessness....
Each time I return to Jane Austen’s 1813 masterpiece, and I must have read it a dozen times, I notice and smile...
Shakespeare’s plays are full of leaders who are often Kings. Eliot A Cohen is a highly experienced and eminent US government adviser...
The friend who recommended this book to me didn’t explain what it was about. She simply told me so fervently how much...