Susan’s Bookshelves: Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by S...
Act 4, Scene 1 of Julius Caesar is one of the most nonchalantly shocking interchanges Shakespeare ever wrote. It presents victorious Mark...
Act 4, Scene 1 of Julius Caesar is one of the most nonchalantly shocking interchanges Shakespeare ever wrote. It presents victorious Mark...
It’s unusual to read a book which explores and celebrates male friendship with all its affectionate joshing, trust and respect. We’re so...
Chris Power’s 2021, debut novel came to my attention because I recently interviewed Chris, in his 2025 Booker Prize judge capacity, for...
My attention was drawn to this 2025 title by a relative who spotted it in a Kent bookshop and thought I might...
Last month I spent a pleasant weekend in North Yorkshire, staying with an old friend. The night before my arrival she had...
Apart from a short story, called The Verger which used to appear in school collections so I shared it with students, I...
It’s a novel I’ve always strenuously avoided for personal reasons. I am ichthyophobic in general and galeophobic in particular. (I also own...
I pounced on this in my local indie bookshop, Beckenham Books. Penguin have apparently launched an archive series of seventy titles. And...