Susan’s Bookshelves: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
It’s a novel I’ve always strenuously avoided for personal reasons. I am ichthyophobic in general and galeophobic in particular. (I also own...
It’s a novel I’ve always strenuously avoided for personal reasons. I am ichthyophobic in general and galeophobic in particular. (I also own...
I pounced on this in my local indie bookshop, Beckenham Books. Penguin have apparently launched an archive series of seventy titles. And...
Sarah Vine married a fellow journalist, Michael Gove. Then he became a politician and she was plunged into a role which she...
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Stella Powell-Jones, artistic director of Jermyn Street Theatre. This was for Ink Pellet – the...
First, two David Copperfield-related anecdotes: When I was teaching part-time in the English department of a girls’ boarding school, our Head of...
Over the years I have read many books by actors describing their adventures with, and thoughts about, Shakespeare: Michael Pennington, Antony Sher,...
Famous, respected and popular as he is I had never, until now, got round to reading any Robert Harris. It did occur...
Of course I grabbed this book as soon as it was published. I interviewed Sheku Kanneh-Mason shortly after he won BBC Young...