Susan’s Bookshelves: Lula Dean’s Little Library of Ba...
Many decades ago, when I was teaching in the English department of a small town Kent secondary school for girls, we were...
Many decades ago, when I was teaching in the English department of a small town Kent secondary school for girls, we were...
My knowledge and understanding of Sri Lankan history and its long, devastating civil war is very sketchy. In fact it’s informed by...
I found this book quite literally almost impossible to put down. And even when I had to, I thought about it continually....
I knew just two things about Mozart’s travels in Italy: First, that he was commissioned to write an opera for Milan when...
I recently had a very pleasant short holiday in Bath, a city I hadn’t visited for some time. One of the things...
Lace isn’t the kind of book you forget in a hurry and I have vivid memories of reading it on a family...
Michelle Magorian’s much loved novel about a gruff old countryman and a traumatised, abused little evacuee and how they healed each other,...
I’ve been reviewing for The School Librarian, a quarterly magazine published by the School Library Association, for over 30 years. It’s voluntary...