Susan’s Bookshelves: The Book of Strange New Things by Mich...
Michael Faber’s 2014 novel was recommended to me by a relation who is both a deeply committed Christian and an academic theologian....
Michael Faber’s 2014 novel was recommended to me by a relation who is both a deeply committed Christian and an academic theologian....
Although it dates from 2017. I recently heard Katherine Heiny talking, and answering audience questions, about Standard Deviation on Radio 4’s The...
I found this slim volume wedged unobtrusively between Somerset Maugham and Michael Morpurgo in my sitting room fiction section. And I had...
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...