Susan’s Bookshelves: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
All dystopian novels are warnings. And Brave New World is the grandfather of them all. Rereading it after many years, I am...
All dystopian novels are warnings. And Brave New World is the grandfather of them all. Rereading it after many years, I am...
Keen readers of this blog might remember that in September 2021 I wrote about Lady Chatterley’s Lover which I had just reread...
AS Byatt writes in colour. There’s a vibrant pre-Raphelite quality about her prose in these stories which instantly reminded me of her...
Paula Hawkins really is quite something isn’t she? First there was The Girl on The Train (although not her first novel) which...
This is a substantial short story first published in mini book form in 1999. Over the years Bennett has developed a pretty...
All the Graham Greene novels I read and enjoyed in my last teens, when I first discovered him, have sat on my...
I remember it with such clarity. I spotted this book one winter evening in the Rainham Bookshop on my way home from...
We used to teach Nicholas Fisk’s 1974 novel, Grinny a lot when I first went to teach in Kent in the late...