Susan’s Bookshelves: Old Glory: An American Voyage by Jonat...
I recently told a newish friend who had come to coffee that I’d always had a fancy to explore America’s central states....
I recently told a newish friend who had come to coffee that I’d always had a fancy to explore America’s central states....
I first discovered Carol Shields when her The Stone Diaries was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1993. Before that she hadn’t...
John Betjeman seems to be a Marmite poet. I love the rueful, wit and rapier-sharp observation of, say “Hunter Trials” or “In...
I read Kathryn Stockett’s wonderful novel The Help soon after it was published and my American niece-in-law drew my attention to it....
First published in 1968 Ted Hughes’s novella (for children?) was widely taught, referred to and recommended during most of the years I...
Of course there have been many biographies of Bess of Harwick. Eventually the Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury, she was probably the richest...
I recently spent a few days with a dear old friend who lives in Cornwall. Horse was lying on her coffee table...
We all read at different levels. I used to tell my students that it was fine to be enjoying Henry Fielding one...