Susan’s Bookshelves: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
First published in 1958, Things Fall Apart is a moving account of what happened in the late 19th century Nigeria when colonial...
First published in 1958, Things Fall Apart is a moving account of what happened in the late 19th century Nigeria when colonial...
Earlier this year I read Frances Quinn’s That Bonesetter Woman, on the strength of a Sunday Times review, and liked it a...
Like nearly everyone else I read Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light initially with excitement and...
A few weeks ago, I took my younger pair of granddaughters – aged 11 and 7 – to Little Angel Theatre in...
I wrote about John Agard’s new volume of poetry a few weeks ago and wouldn’t normally return to the same author so...
The best short stories are quirky and – in a volume which is new to my bookshelves – Stewart Ross’s lockdown project...
Anya Seyton. What a historical novelist she was. Born in 1904 in Manhattan, she died in 1990 in Connecticut. My attention was...
Josephine Tey straddled two genres with her The Daughter of Time in 1951: crime fiction meets historical novel. Of course others have...