Susan’s Bookshelves: All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle
One of my amateur musician friends recommended this warm, compelling book while she and I were drinking tea and eating biscuits during...
One of my amateur musician friends recommended this warm, compelling book while she and I were drinking tea and eating biscuits during...
I spotted this book in the National Theatre Bookshop four or five years ago and bought it. The main attraction was the...
A friend of mine often mentions William Golding (1911-1993) because he taught her late husband English at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury....
I had vaguely heard of Dorothy Whipple (1893-1966) but never read any of her books and knew nothing about her. Then a...
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...