Susan’s Bookshelves: Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens
My ancient copy of Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens is inscribed “To Susan with love from Aunty Jill xx 1956”. Jill was...
My ancient copy of Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens is inscribed “To Susan with love from Aunty Jill xx 1956”. Jill was...
The Wind in the Wi̵l̵l̵o̵w̵s̵ Wilton’s 4 stars Show: The Wind in the Wi̵l̵l̵o̵w̵s̵ Wilton’s Society: London (professional shows) Venue: Wilton’s Music Hall. 1 Graces...
I’ve admired the work of Paterson Joseph, actor, for a long time – most recently in Noughts and Crosses and Vigil both...
I can’t remember when a book grabbed me by the throat quite as forcibly as this one did. Although, of course, I’ve...
Anita Brookner – mistress of understatement, crystalline prose and unfulfilled older women – won the Booker Prize with Hotel du Lac in...
First published in 1958, Things Fall Apart is a moving account of what happened in the late 19th century Nigeria when colonial...
Earlier this year I read Frances Quinn’s That Bonesetter Woman, on the strength of a Sunday Times review, and liked it a...
Like nearly everyone else I read Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light initially with excitement and...