Susan Bookshelves: Four Seasons in Japan by Nick Bradley
Published in 2024, this heart-warming novel was recommended by a friend whose reading tastes are nearly as eclectic as mine. Nick Bradley’s...
Published in 2024, this heart-warming novel was recommended by a friend whose reading tastes are nearly as eclectic as mine. Nick Bradley’s...
I read The Catcher in the Rye decades ago, when I was a teacher-training student at Bishop Otter College, Chichester. In their...
Writing a piece the other day about the history of the Carnegie Medals, I realised that I had missed last year’s winner...
First published in Sweden in 2024, Liza Ridzen’s debut novel has been a runaway, word-of-mouth success. The English translation landed in mid...
I often write here about books written in the past, usually because I have come back to them after a while. This...
I read it as a child. And now I look at how wordy Beecher Stowe’s unexpurgated version is, I’m pretty sure that...
Kathryn Mannix works in a hospice as a consultant in palliative care. Her still small voice of calm experience exudes wisdom, humility...
I reread each of Jane Austen’s six novels about once in ten years. This is the fourth time I have featured her...