Susan’s Bookshelves: Dance of the Dwarfs by Geoffrey Household
This novel was first published in 1968 which was about the time I got to know my soon-to-be mother-in-law cosily enough to...
This novel was first published in 1968 which was about the time I got to know my soon-to-be mother-in-law cosily enough to...
Of course I was going to grab Judi Dench’s new book about Shakespeare. How could I not? I bought it on the...
I’m not really a dog person. Cats are more my thing. I like dogs, though. In the last year or two I...
I started reading the Booker shortlist as an annual project in the 1980s. I saw it a personal, horizon-widening exercise. As a...
I wouldn’t normally write about a single short story here but this one is such a gem I think it deserves a...
It was one of my former A level student who emailed me around 2010. “Mrs Elkin, have you read this?” she asked...
What a novel! First published in 1854, when Dickens was 42, it exudes anger about social injustice from the first page to...
Whenever I’m in touch – and that’s quite often – with my dear old college friend who lives in Brisbane, we always...