Susan’s Bookshelves: Missing Rose by Linda Newbery
At quarter past two, on a Wednesday afternoon in the 1990s Anna’s eighteen year old sister disappears. Police are involved, enquiries are...
At quarter past two, on a Wednesday afternoon in the 1990s Anna’s eighteen year old sister disappears. Police are involved, enquiries are...
I knew nothing about Kate Griffin’s 2023 best seller although it had, apparently, a great deal of acclaim last year. I simply...
Whenever I return to Dickens, I wonder why I don’t reread him more often. All that glittering irony, rich characterisation and accurate...
This 2024 publication presents eleven short stories which look at woman’s experience from a range of angles. Some of the eight characters...
I recently reviewed a 2024 children’s book for a magazine in which I said it was like Charlotte’s Web crossed with Harry...
My attention was drawn to Valérie Perrin’s 2020, warm, moving novel about love and loss by a French friend who read it...
It is surprising how often Radio 3’s Private Passions widens my reading. But as my own forthcoming new book (All Booked Up:...
I’m a bit late to the party with this engaging, intriguing novel but it was a best seller in 2021 when it...