Susan’s Bookshelves: The Place of Tides by James Rebanks
Of course I knew James Rebanks’s name as a Cumbrian farmer, author and occasional broadcaster. I heard him talking to Michael Berkley...
Of course I knew James Rebanks’s name as a Cumbrian farmer, author and occasional broadcaster. I heard him talking to Michael Berkley...
If ever there was a book with my name on, it was this one. So when I spotted it in Waterstones, I...
I found this 2016 novel lurking in a forgotten corner of my Kindle library. I bought it last year, apparently. Someone must...
I have heard Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra performed live twice this year and I’ve reviewed it – woefully conscious of my...
I have been in love with Saki’s short stories for many years. And I come back to them frequently because they are...
I was recently on a four-day string quartet workshop course led by the Tedesca Quartet, something I do fairly regularly. In one...
This engaging novel explores the relationship between Charles Dickens and his wife, Catherine Hogarth, partly through the eyes of her supportive but...
Carrie Cole, who narrates, is a doctor – specifically an ambitious, committed surgeon – and Rosie Walsh has researched the details of...