Susan’s Bookshelves (Black Beauty by Anna Sewell)
I recently had a very pleasant short holiday in Bath, a city I hadn’t visited for some time. One of the things...
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...
I was given this book by a friend who’d abandoned it because she said she didn’t like way it “moves about all...
Astrid is an elderly actress who hasn’t worked for decades but has played the National and the RSC in big roles. Today...