There comes a time in any young life where the senses are suddenly open and art of any genus strikes like a…
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Book ReviewsFeaturedLiverpoolTen Years On The Parish: The Autobiography and Letters of George Garrett
I have often wished I could step back in time to see the Mersey in its golden years brimming with vessels setting…
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It is probably a little too late for you to read The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power by Alex Nunns before…
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The Great Passage by Shion Miura is a lovely book and you must read it. If you like Japan and books –…
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It was quite a surprise, on finishing Hotel du Lac, to learn that it was probably set around the time it was…
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Rose Tremain is a writer who has an impressive trunk of material. In the collection of short stories, The American Lover, she…
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There could be many potential answers to the question, ‘What is Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook about?’ Almost like a literary Rorschach…
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Despite the almost universal outpouring of joy over The Comet Seekers, Helen Sedgwick’s tale of love and loss across the centuries and generations…
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Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers was given to me by a friend who understands I have a fixation on…
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Children have a fixation with the downright gruesome. I found this out when I recently re-discovered the picture book Struwwelpeter by Heinrich…
