Susan’s Bookshelves (Daniel Deronda by George Eliot)
Daniel Deronda (1876) came four years after Middlemarch and was George Eliot’s last novel. She died in 1880, aged 61. I hadn’t...
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...
Anna Maria della Pieta (1696-1782) was a famous Italian violinist for most of the eighteenth century. Probably the child of a sex...
It’s unusual for me to feature a newly published young adult title here but I was bowled over by this one and...
The friend who recommended this book didn’t tell me what it was about. She simply emailed “You might like this”. She was...
Naomi Jacob, who died in 1964, wrote seven books about the Gollantz family who were Jewish antique dealers in London and, at...