Susan’s Bookshelves: There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak
I recommend this 2024 novel unreservedly. I read it because I’ve enjoyed Elif Shafak’s previous work but there has never been anything...
I recommend this 2024 novel unreservedly. I read it because I’ve enjoyed Elif Shafak’s previous work but there has never been anything...
John Steinbeck’s great gift is to be able to wrench the guts out of you and leave you moved, to near speechlessness....
Each time I return to Jane Austen’s 1813 masterpiece, and I must have read it a dozen times, I notice and smile...
Shakespeare’s plays are full of leaders who are often Kings. Eliot A Cohen is a highly experienced and eminent US government adviser...
The friend who recommended this book to me didn’t explain what it was about. She simply told me so fervently how much...
Although Noel Streatfeild’s best known (and first) novel was published back in 1936, I didn’t read it in childhood. I was not...
It all started when, in my usual wordy way, I used the word “olfactory” on the family WhatsApp group. I loathe, detest,...
A brick of a book, Caledonian Road (2024) is almost Dickensian in scope. Loosely rooted in the eponymous, diverse Islington street, it...