Susan’s Bookshelves (Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner)
I am working my way through the Booker Prize shortlist. This is something I routinely did when I was teaching English so...
I am working my way through the Booker Prize shortlist. This is something I routinely did when I was teaching English so...
Well, this one is something different. A female narrator lives with her eccentric uncle in Brittany. The short novel’s title is unequivocal....
Susan’s Bookshelves: Orbital by Samantha Harvey Early in 2020 (good timing as it turned out) my son Felix and I went to...
I recently a few happy days staying with a friend in Cornwall. A former teaching colleague, she is a drama specialist who,...
Daniel Deronda (1876) came four years after Middlemarch and was George Eliot’s last novel. She died in 1880, aged 61. I hadn’t...
I have fallen in love with the novels of Mike Gayle. I find them totally compelling to the extent that once I...
I read this book when it was shortlisted for the (then) Man Booker prize back in 2012. A friend recently mentioned that...
I have a nonagenarian friend who worked for a mere sixty years or so behind the scenes in theatre. She seems to...