Susan’s Bookshelves: The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
I enjoyed The Dictionary of Lost Words (2020) so much that I pounced with glee on this “companion” novel, published earlier this...
I enjoyed The Dictionary of Lost Words (2020) so much that I pounced with glee on this “companion” novel, published earlier this...
Penelope Fitzgerald, greatly admired as a novelist and biographer, died in 2000. She hadn’t had an easy or straightforward life having had...
I first read Purple Hibiscus not long after its publication in 2004. Then, because it had found its way onto one or...
I am working my way through the Booker Prize shortlist. This is something I routinely did when I was teaching English so...
Well, this one is something different. A female narrator lives with her eccentric uncle in Brittany. The short novel’s title is unequivocal....
Susan’s Bookshelves: Orbital by Samantha Harvey Early in 2020 (good timing as it turned out) my son Felix and I went to...
I recently a few happy days staying with a friend in Cornwall. A former teaching colleague, she is a drama specialist who,...
Daniel Deronda (1876) came four years after Middlemarch and was George Eliot’s last novel. She died in 1880, aged 61. I hadn’t...