Susan’s Bookshelves: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
It’s Dickens at his angriest – at least in the first half of the novel. He is relentlessly (excessively?) sardonic and the...
It’s Dickens at his angriest – at least in the first half of the novel. He is relentlessly (excessively?) sardonic and the...
It has long been my contention – and I always stressed it to students – that the best way of acquiring eclectic...
Walking with my sister recently, we bought takeaway cuppas in a waterside coffee shop to sustain us for the return route. On...
This is one of those novels which hits you so hard between the eyes that it permanently changes you and your attitude....
We’re in Tuscany in 1528 where a nun, Alessandra Cecchi, has just died having left instructions that she is not to be...
My third granddaughter (GD3), aged 9 and an avid reader, recently decided and declared that the books she likes best are about...
Rumer Godden’s powerful, unsentimental 1955 novel is about children. But, however it might have been marketed, it doesn’t feel like a children’s...
I’ve known about the prison reform work of Elizabeth Fry since I was about 9 – thanks to The Girl, a sister...