Susan’s Bookshelves: Border Zone by John Agard
Of course I’ve read the occasional John Agard poem in anthologies. And one of the schools I taught in invited Grace Nichols...
Of course I’ve read the occasional John Agard poem in anthologies. And one of the schools I taught in invited Grace Nichols...
Northanger Abbey was my O level set text and my introduction to Jane Austen. I was hooked. I read the other five...
It blew me away when I first read it nearly twenty years ago. And rereading The Kite Runner now, the effect was...
When I was in my teens and twenties, I thought Gerald Durrell was utterly, delightfully, quirkily hilarious. He could make me laugh...
I’ve had a thing about Corfe Castle since I was three years old. It’s that first glimpse of it through the Purbeck...
Although I’ve read it at least twice in the distant past I have never taught The Mill on the Floss. Reading it...
Librarians and book prize panels do not care for Michael Morpurgo because they find his writing sentimental and predictable. I doubt that...
I first read Chocolat twenty three years ago when it was first published in 1999 and getting huge amounts of acclaim. All...