Susan’s Bookshelves: The Koran: A Very Short Introduction b...
I am not a religious believer. I saw what was, for me, the light when I was eighteen and walked resolutely away...
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...
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....