Susan’s Bookshelves: The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Josephine Tey straddled two genres with her The Daughter of Time in 1951: crime fiction meets historical novel. Of course others have...
Josephine Tey straddled two genres with her The Daughter of Time in 1951: crime fiction meets historical novel. Of course others have...
Even if you don’t care for fantasy (and that’s me) it is inarguable that CS Lewis’s seven Narnia books grabbed millions of...
A few weeks ago I had lunch with a someone who used to be a colleague and has morphed into a friend....
I read Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the first in the series, in 1997 because people were beginning to talk about...
I learned a huge amount about Islam and about barriers/ semi-permeable membrane between cultures from Osman Yousefzada’s frank and thoughtful memoir whose...
Agatha Christie was the first grown-up author I ever read. My mother was keen on her books and one day I picked...
In 1968 I went to teach in a challenging inner London boys’ secondary school. The journey from my refined grammar school to...
Rose Tremain’s Lily was published last year and I’ve just read it in paperback which, unusually, was cheaper than the Kindle version....