Susan’s Bookshelves: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Each time I return to Jane Austen’s 1813 masterpiece, and I must have read it a dozen times, I notice and smile...
Each time I return to Jane Austen’s 1813 masterpiece, and I must have read it a dozen times, I notice and smile...
Shakespeare’s plays are full of leaders who are often Kings. Eliot A Cohen is a highly experienced and eminent US government adviser...
The friend who recommended this book to me didn’t explain what it was about. She simply told me so fervently how much...
Although Noel Streatfeild’s best known (and first) novel was published back in 1936, I didn’t read it in childhood. I was not...
It all started when, in my usual wordy way, I used the word “olfactory” on the family WhatsApp group. I loathe, detest,...
A brick of a book, Caledonian Road (2024) is almost Dickensian in scope. Loosely rooted in the eponymous, diverse Islington street, it...
Petroc Trelawny is a much loved Radio 3 presenter: urbane, warm, witty, knowledgeable and never patronising. And with a name like his,...
My attention was drawn to this 2005 novel by a friend whose book club has it scheduled for discussion and she wondered...