Susan’s Bookshelves: A Lonely Man by Chris Power
Chris Power’s 2021, debut novel came to my attention because I recently interviewed Chris, in his 2025 Booker Prize judge capacity, for...
Chris Power’s 2021, debut novel came to my attention because I recently interviewed Chris, in his 2025 Booker Prize judge capacity, for...
My attention was drawn to this 2025 title by a relative who spotted it in a Kent bookshop and thought I might...
Last month I spent a pleasant weekend in North Yorkshire, staying with an old friend. The night before my arrival she had...
Apart from a short story, called The Verger which used to appear in school collections so I shared it with students, I...
It’s a novel I’ve always strenuously avoided for personal reasons. I am ichthyophobic in general and galeophobic in particular. (I also own...
I pounced on this in my local indie bookshop, Beckenham Books. Penguin have apparently launched an archive series of seventy titles. And...
Sarah Vine married a fellow journalist, Michael Gove. Then he became a politician and she was plunged into a role which she...
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Stella Powell-Jones, artistic director of Jermyn Street Theatre. This was for Ink Pellet – the...