Susan’s Bookshelves: Island by Aldous Huxley
When I reread (and wrote about) Brave New World in January I kept thinking of his last novel, Island (1962). I’d read...
When I reread (and wrote about) Brave New World in January I kept thinking of his last novel, Island (1962). I’d read...
Arriving recently in North Yorkshire to stay with a friend, I found myself, in her sitting room, chatting to another woman who...
Until my late husband and I went to Vienna to visit galleries, attend concerts and walk the Beethoven trail a few years...
To be honest I didn’t know much about Marian Keyes until I read a review of her new book Again, Rachel and...
Well it’s always been controversial. Nabokov’s famous 1955 story about a middle aged man’s obsession with pubescent or pre-pubescent girls was turned...
There are two series of books I’ve always intended to read one day (unlike Lord of the Rings which I decided long...
It was my A level geography teacher, Miss Diana Raine, who told me to read the novels of Neville Shute (1899-1960). We...
I discovered Daphne du Maurier in my mid teens. Rebecca was warmly recommended by my mother who had read it, aged 16,...