Blog - Susannah Fullerton

01 Jan 2020

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My 2019 Favourites

Susannah 1 January 2020 12 Comments

Each January I give you my list of Top Ten books of the year just ended. It’s always terribly hard deciding Read more

01 Jan 2020

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Anne Brontë’s 200th birthday

Susannah 1 January 2020 6 Comments

There is an important literary anniversary this month – on 17 January it will be Anne Brontë’s 200th birthday. Read more

01 Jan 2020

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Forbes ‘Fictional 15’

Susannah 1 January 2020 2 Comments

I am sure you must have heard of the Forbes List, an annual listing of the world’s wealthiest billionaires? Read more

01 Jan 2020

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My mother read Kidnapped to me when I was a child. I loved the story and adventure but, being utterly ignorant of Jacobite history, I was extremely hazy about why Alan’s life was in danger and what cause he was supporting. Read more

01 Jan 2020

Susannah Poem of the Month, Poets, Poems, Newsletter 10 Comments Permalink

Jenny Joseph & ‘Warning’

Susannah 1 January 2020 10 Comments

I have a significant birthday this year, so a poem about ageing disgracefully seems rather appropriate. This one is by Jenny Joseph (1932 – 2018). Read more

01 Jan 2020

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J.R.R. Tolkien & ‘The Hobbit’

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February will bring you one of the world’s favourite novels, The Hobbit by J.R. R. Tolkien. Learn about the inspiration behind Bilbo Baggins Read more

01 Dec 2019

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George Eliot turns 200

Susannah 1 December 2019 8 Comments

George Eliot turned 200 on 22nd November 2019. Virginia Woolf once described Middlemarch as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”. Read more

01 Dec 2019

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A Good Obituary

Susannah 1 December 2019 6 Comments

I always enjoy reading a well-written obituary. My favourite one from 2019 was published in The Times in June, and concerned a legal professor named Sir Guenter Treitel, QC. Read more

01 Dec 2019

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BBC’s 100 Novels that Shaped our World

Susannah 1 December 2019 17 Comments

When I was about 15 my English teacher handed out lists of the books that we should have read if we were to consider ourselves a well-read person. Read more

01 Dec 2019

Susannah Book of the Month, Monograph, Authors, Recommended Reading, books 6 Comments Permalink

Wilkie Collins & ‘The Moonstone’

Susannah 1 December 2019 6 Comments

When Wilkie Collins sat down to write The Moonstone the detective novel did not exist as a literary form. His spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired this popular genre. Read more

01 Dec 2019

Susannah Poem of the Month, Poets, Poems, Newsletter 6 Comments Permalink

Hone Tuwhare & ‘Rain’

Susannah 1 December 2019 6 Comments

Today’s newspaper included a photo of some young children in rural Australia jumping in puddles of rain that had just fallen. In this terrible time of drought, a poem about rain has extra resonance. Read more

01 Nov 2019

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Book of the Month Club Early Bird special

Another Year of Good Reading

Susannah 1 November 2019 No Comments

Two years ago I started an exciting programme called A Year of Good Reading. Commencing in January 2018 an enthusiastic group of avid readers signed up Read more

01 Nov 2019

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