Susan’s Bookshelves: The Secret Artist by Joe Tucker
Eric Tucker, who died in 2018, left a former Warrington council house full of messy hoardings and over 500 paintings that he’d...
Eric Tucker, who died in 2018, left a former Warrington council house full of messy hoardings and over 500 paintings that he’d...
A digital conversation with one of the most loyal followers of Susan’s Bookshelves recently came round to Franz Kafka. My correspondent was...
Published in 2022, this book became a runaway, international best seller and I can see why. It tells a devastatingly gritty story...
Published in 2024, this heart-warming novel was recommended by a friend whose reading tastes are nearly as eclectic as mine. Nick Bradley’s...
I read The Catcher in the Rye decades ago, when I was a teacher-training student at Bishop Otter College, Chichester. In their...
Writing a piece the other day about the history of the Carnegie Medals, I realised that I had missed last year’s winner...
First published in Sweden in 2024, Liza Ridzen’s debut novel has been a runaway, word-of-mouth success. The English translation landed in mid...
I often write here about books written in the past, usually because I have come back to them after a while. This...