Susan’s Bookshelves: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
It blew me away when I first read it nearly twenty years ago. And rereading The Kite Runner now, the effect was...
It blew me away when I first read it nearly twenty years ago. And rereading The Kite Runner now, the effect was...
When I was in my teens and twenties, I thought Gerald Durrell was utterly, delightfully, quirkily hilarious. He could make me laugh...
I’ve had a thing about Corfe Castle since I was three years old. It’s that first glimpse of it through the Purbeck...
Although I’ve read it at least twice in the distant past I have never taught The Mill on the Floss. Reading it...
Librarians and book prize panels do not care for Michael Morpurgo because they find his writing sentimental and predictable. I doubt that...
I first read Chocolat twenty three years ago when it was first published in 1999 and getting huge amounts of acclaim. All...
This is not the first time Radio 3’s Private Passions has led me to a book. Until I heard him talking to...
With Britain’s first ever Platinum Jubilee now only a week or two away, many of us are thinking about The Queen’s astonishing...