A year of reading with one of Britain's most read authors
Susan Hill has been awarded a CBE for her services to literature. Author of the Simon Serrailler crime series and numerous other novels, her literary memoir, Howard's End is on the Landing [9781846682667] and the ghost stories The Man In The Picture, The Small Hand [9781846682407], Dolly and The Travelling Bag [9781781256190] are all published by Profile. The Woman in Black is published by Profile in hardback [9781781255520].
Delightful ... [Hill] potently evokes the joy of discovering a new
author or re-evaluating a favourite ... The authors, painters and
musicians she knows or knew are vividly sketched ... a richly
idiosyncratic memoir of a bibliophile. Best of all, it ignites a
passion for books one hasn't read, or even though of.
*Mail on Sunday*
This thought-provoking book gives both inspiration on new titles to
explore and a soothing sense that reading is indeed a vital and
central part of living.
*Press Association*
Hill is wise, affectionate, insightful. Here is a distillation of a
lifetime of reading, writing, editing, publishing, buying,
hoarding, lending, borrowing and dog-earing books.
*Times*
The bookworm in your life will be champing at the bit to read
[Hill's] recommendations
*Saga*
Praise for Howards End is on the Landing:
'Totally beguiling, utterly persuasive'
*The Times*
A passionate reminder of the importance of reading and a revealing
glimpse of a writer's life
*Observer*
Fascinating sketches of literary and artistic figures ... an
eloquent advocate [for] the virtues of wide-ranging, deeply felt
and considered reading
*Daily Telegraph*
Delightful... an idiosyncratic commingling of fiction, non-fiction
and poetry...Hill has a voracious and varied appetite and her
taste, with a few exceptions, is impeccable
*New Statesman*
Will stir up your love for old classics and send you scurrying off
in search of exciting new reads.
*Times Books of the Year*
An amusing insight into how reading shapes our lives. For those
with new year's resolutions to read more books, this journal is a
good place to start.
*Big Issue*
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