Susan’s Bookshelves: 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie was the first grown-up author I ever read. My mother was keen on her books and one day I picked...
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....
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...