Inspiring Older Readers
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The joys of sharing books with older readers posted on 22 Jun 2017
As an ex teacher I always enjoy doing one of our ' Wild Things and Gold Rings' events with children in playgroups, nurseries and schools.
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Colette at the table: M F K Fisher posted on 21 Jun 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn reviews the career of a writer he thinks is a 'strange, unrepeatable cross between Colette and Hemingway'.
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Going back to the source and drawing from the well posted on 16 Jun 2017
The fashion for drawing on or even reinterpreting mythology seems to ebb and flow.
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Pen and Scalpel: The new school of surgeon-writers posted on 11 Jun 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn considers the great writing that gives us a privileged look into the real world of the medical practitioner.
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Jane Austen: Sorry, but I just don’t get it posted on 31 May 2017
My time at university as an English Literature undergraduate student now feels so distant that I don’t have many memories I can wholly trust
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I really should be reading more poetry posted on 20 May 2017
When I was about 16 I started to develop the idea that I would have a career, or rather, a future in literature.
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Print them cheap and pile them high posted on 06 May 2017
When I first started buying books...
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Communing with radical spirits posted on 01 May 2017
In the two or three days after Easter I was lucky enough to spend time in Bournemouth when spring was springing...
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That George Orwell Look posted on 12 Apr 2017
When it came to his private life Eric Blair liked to keep himself to himself.
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Bookaholic or bibliomaniac? I think I know where I stand. posted on 29 Mar 2017
My name is Terry and I’m a bookaholic. There, I’ve said it.