Susan’s Bookshelves: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
I’ve just finished it. Again. That must have been my ninth or tenth reading of Wuthering Heights and it still got right...
I’ve just finished it. Again. That must have been my ninth or tenth reading of Wuthering Heights and it still got right...
The Red Pony is one of John Steinbeck’s gut-wrenching novellas. I don’t know whether it’s still taught much in UK schools but...
I first read Fingersmith first in 2002, curious because it had been shortlisted for both Booker and Orange prizes. I remember vividly...
OK, let’s get it out of the way. Kipling was an imperialist. He was also a fine story teller and poet. I...
I try to read eclectically although there are some genres (horror, science fiction and fantasy for example) that I really don’t like....
My father, not a lover of written fiction, preferred films. And one of his favourites was John Huston’s 1951 The African Queen...
I was sent a proof copy of this novel a few months ago and it published earlier this month. Historical fiction is...
Hilary Mantel, now in her late sixties, was a successful award- winning novelist long before she disappeared for 15 years to live...