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I like to read books with which I can feel some personal connection. On a visit to Berlin last year, we took one of the tours from Berliner Unterwelten E.V. (Society for the Exploration and Documentation of Subterranean Architecture). These cover potential nuclear bunkers from …

I started reading this series of autobiographies, six in total, by Maya Angelou, just before Christmas. I finished the series in eight weeks; a record for someone who reads one or two books a year. I can’t recommend them highly enough.
The six books in order …

Frida Kahlo’s personal journal displays her daily thoughts and feelings. This diary is not what you can expect from such literary genre but that is, among others, one of the features which made it so captivating and intriguing.
There’s no day to day, going-ons, no seasons …

If we were a’ sensible, there would be nae fools
Traveller’s Life – The Autobiography of Sheila Stewart by Sheila Stewart
Published April 201
Birlinn £9.99
Maybe this book is not like other people’s biographies. But it has to be different…because a travellers’ life is different from anyone else’s.’ …

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Reviewed by Aileen Paterson
I was very surprised to learn that this book had been banned in several US schools for its ‘frank treatment of sexual themes’. It had been some time since I had read it (maybe fifteen …

She Settles in the Shields – Untold stories of women in Pollokshields – Review by Tabassum Niamat.
She settles In the Shields is a collection of stories about the women who migrated from the subcontinent and other regions of the UK to settle in the lovely …