Susan’s Bookshelves: The Collected Works of AJ Fikry by Gab...
This book, first published in 2014, has been grinning beckoningly at me from my digital TBR pile for several months. I simply...
This book, first published in 2014, has been grinning beckoningly at me from my digital TBR pile for several months. I simply...
I’m delighted to have met Mrs Laetita “Letty” Rodd having stumbled upon her by chance. Sadly our acquaintanceship will be shortlived bacause...
When I was an A level geography student, our inspiring teacher, Miss Diana Raine, would talk seriously about the lives of rivers....
Of course plays should be seen rather than read. It’s what I used to tell my students and it still holds true....
I devour detective fiction for characterisation and geography. Who could not fall for Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club quartet? On the page...
Act 4, Scene 1 of Julius Caesar is one of the most nonchalantly shocking interchanges Shakespeare ever wrote. It presents victorious Mark...
It’s unusual to read a book which explores and celebrates male friendship with all its affectionate joshing, trust and respect. We’re so...
Chris Power’s 2021, debut novel came to my attention because I recently interviewed Chris, in his 2025 Booker Prize judge capacity, for...