Susan’s Bookshelves: The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
It’s one of those novels in which the setting broodingly, atmospherically underpins the action to such an extent that it almost becomes...
It’s one of those novels in which the setting broodingly, atmospherically underpins the action to such an extent that it almost becomes...
I’ve never made any secret of my view that my CertEd teacher training course at Bishop Otter College, Chichester (1965-8) was not...
All dystopian novels are warnings. And Brave New World is the grandfather of them all. Rereading it after many years, I am...
Keen readers of this blog might remember that in September 2021 I wrote about Lady Chatterley’s Lover which I had just reread...
AS Byatt writes in colour. There’s a vibrant pre-Raphelite quality about her prose in these stories which instantly reminded me of her...
Paula Hawkins really is quite something isn’t she? First there was The Girl on The Train (although not her first novel) which...
This is a substantial short story first published in mini book form in 1999. Over the years Bennett has developed a pretty...
All the Graham Greene novels I read and enjoyed in my last teens, when I first discovered him, have sat on my...