Susan’s Bookshelves: We Germans by Alexander Starritt
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Stella Powell-Jones, artistic director of Jermyn Street Theatre. This was for Ink Pellet – the...
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Stella Powell-Jones, artistic director of Jermyn Street Theatre. This was for Ink Pellet – the...
First, two David Copperfield-related anecdotes: When I was teaching part-time in the English department of a girls’ boarding school, our Head of...
Over the years I have read many books by actors describing their adventures with, and thoughts about, Shakespeare: Michael Pennington, Antony Sher,...
Famous, respected and popular as he is I had never, until now, got round to reading any Robert Harris. It did occur...
Of course I grabbed this book as soon as it was published. I interviewed Sheku Kanneh-Mason shortly after he won BBC Young...
I read The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and was moved by it, soon after it was published in January 2013. It...
I’ve never quite got into Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series but I’ve happily lapped up several of her standalones and so was...
It was a heart-warming pleasure to come back to The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (2006) There is nothing pretentiously “literary” about...