Susan’s Bookshelves: The Go-Between by LP Hartley
Of course I first read it at teacher training college. It’s about a child’s thought processes and they were keen on that....
Of course I first read it at teacher training college. It’s about a child’s thought processes and they were keen on that....
I think I’ve read all Victoria Hislop’s novels – usually with a lot of pleasure. I admire her in-depth understanding of Greece,...
I thought I was reasonably “well read”, to coin an old-fashioned term, and I suppose by comparison with that bloke on the...
When I was sixteen a Very Nerdy Friend shared with me his enthusiasm for Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet of which Justine (1957)...
Well I seem to have read, and enjoyed, a golfing novel which will surprise and amuse several regular readers of this blog....
I was discussing historic child abuse with an old friend last month (as you do, obviously, over a pleasant summer lunch) when...
A national treasure? That’s not how wry, sardonic, self-deprecating Alan Bennett sees it. In fact at one point, a soi-disant “connoisseur of...
Cards on the table. I know David Weir. He and I are both work for, and with, London Pub Theatres Magazine as...