Susan’s Bookshelves: London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
This book is extraordinary. Rarely have I read anything so immaculately researched and compellingly written. Published in April 2026 and strap-lined “A...
This book is extraordinary. Rarely have I read anything so immaculately researched and compellingly written. Published in April 2026 and strap-lined “A...
I have probably read Great Expectations a dozen times. It featured on the English course at Bishop Otter College. I later studied...
It was one of the regular readers of Susan’s Bookshelves who drew my attention to this 2001 novel. He wondered what I...
As anyone who has read The Beekeeper of Aleppo knows, Christy Lefteri has a real gift for finding hope and a way...
I recently told a newish friend who had come to coffee that I’d always had a fancy to explore America’s central states....
I first discovered Carol Shields when her The Stone Diaries was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1993. Before that she hadn’t...
John Betjeman seems to be a Marmite poet. I love the rueful, wit and rapier-sharp observation of, say “Hunter Trials” or “In...
I read Kathryn Stockett’s wonderful novel The Help soon after it was published and my American niece-in-law drew my attention to it....