Susan’s Bookshelves: The Wives of Halcyon by Eirinie Lapidaki
I found this book quite literally almost impossible to put down. And even when I had to, I thought about it continually....
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...
Michelle Magorian’s much loved novel about a gruff old countryman and a traumatised, abused little evacuee and how they healed each other,...
I’ve been reviewing for The School Librarian, a quarterly magazine published by the School Library Association, for over 30 years. It’s voluntary...
I have loved and admired (most of) Margaret Atwood’s fiction for a very long time. She is, of course, supremely intelligent and...
Of course, as an amateur violinist, I’ve always been interested in violin repertoire and have known – at least as a listener...