Susan’s Bookshelves: The Tsarina’s Daughter by Ellen Alpsten
I was sent a proof copy of this novel a few months ago and it published earlier this month. Historical fiction is...
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...
I’m a sucker for sagas. So, around 1970 – once I’d worked through everything saga-ish by Daphne du Maurier, read all...
It’s like buses. You wait a long time and then two come along at once. I don’t remember ever seeing a dramatisation...
I met John Peter, who died last year, once or twice at Critics’ Circle events in London and of course I read...
My love of Barchester Towers, which I regard as one of the funniest books in English, dates back to 1966 when I...
CP Snow and I go back a long way. I started reading him when I was in the sixth form. First, The...
Having discovered Rebecca in my mid-teens I then went on to gobble up everything else Daphne du Maurier had ever written. And...