Susan’s Bookshelves: The Lightless Sky by Gulwali Passerlay...
I recently gave a talk at Catford Library about my latest book, All Booked Up. It followed a meeting of the library’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...
Many decades ago, when I was teaching in the English department of a small town Kent secondary school for girls, we were...
My knowledge and understanding of Sri Lankan history and its long, devastating civil war is very sketchy. In fact it’s informed by...
I found this book quite literally almost impossible to put down. And even when I had to, I thought about it continually....
I knew just two things about Mozart’s travels in Italy: First, that he was commissioned to write an opera for Milan when...
I recently had a very pleasant short holiday in Bath, a city I hadn’t visited for some time. One of the things...
Lace isn’t the kind of book you forget in a hurry and I have vivid memories of reading it on a family...