Susan’s Bookshelves: Notes From An Exhibition by Patrick Gale
I recently spent a few delightful days in Cornwall where my host/friend, with whom I share a love of books and words,...
I recently spent a few delightful days in Cornwall where my host/friend, with whom I share a love of books and words,...
I was drawn to this book because the publisher describes it as “A powerful de-colonial retelling of Mansfield Park”. And, at present,...
I am not a religious believer. I saw what was, for me, the light when I was eighteen and walked resolutely away...
When I was teaching English I always listened carefully to my students’ accounts of what they were reading and quite often read...
I discovered Daphne du Maurier when I first read Rebecca in my mid teens. I gobbled the whole of her backlist from...
I bought this book on autopilot because I’m an enthusiastic Elly Griffiths fan. I love her nonchalant present tense style, her wit...
Journalist Tim Devlin is once more on an investigative trail of nursery rhymes and, as ever, the depth of his research is...
When I arrived at Bishop Otter College, Chichester to train as a teacher in 1965 all I knew about Ibsen was Grieg’s...