Susan’s Bookshelves: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
I recently saw a modern play version of Oscar Wilde’s only novel in which shifting images were on mobile phones. It reminded...
I recently saw a modern play version of Oscar Wilde’s only novel in which shifting images were on mobile phones. It reminded...
I’m not sure who recommended this book to me. I found it lurking on my Kindle, in my digital TBR list. But...
I enjoyed The Dictionary of Lost Words (2020) so much that I pounced with glee on this “companion” novel, published earlier this...
Penelope Fitzgerald, greatly admired as a novelist and biographer, died in 2000. She hadn’t had an easy or straightforward life having had...
I first read Purple Hibiscus not long after its publication in 2004. Then, because it had found its way onto one or...
I am working my way through the Booker Prize shortlist. This is something I routinely did when I was teaching English so...
Well, this one is something different. A female narrator lives with her eccentric uncle in Brittany. The short novel’s title is unequivocal....
Susan’s Bookshelves: Orbital by Samantha Harvey Early in 2020 (good timing as it turned out) my son Felix and I went to...