Inspiring Older Readers
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The Bride of Fu Manchu posted on 16 Sep 2025
From the age of about 8 or 9 my Saturday late mornings were dominated by trips to one of the two local cinemas ...
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The Mad Road posted on 11 Sep 2025
Back in 2016 we were fortunate here at The Letterpress Project to be given the chance to exclusively publish a short story
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Service with a Smile posted on 07 Sep 2025
I know that Wodehouse splits opinion – there are those who find him a constant source of enjoyment and others who are utterly mystified
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Goethe: A Life in Ideas posted on 02 Sep 2025
I feel that I need to start this review with a confession: I’ve always found Johann Wolfgang von Goethe intimidating
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Devil in a Blue Dress posted on 28 Aug 2025
First published in 1990, Devil in a Blue Dress is a mix of hard-boiled private-dick thriller and a commentary...
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Rural Hours posted on 24 Aug 2025
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads 'Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann'.
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The Scarlet Boy posted on 19 Aug 2025
I first discovered Calder-Marshall’s work when I read his extraordinary book, The Fair to Middling
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No Longer Human posted on 14 Aug 2025
First published in 1948, you will probably see a number of reviews that refer to Dazai’s novel as a classic of Japanese 20th century literature
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Paradise Lost: A Biography posted on 10 Aug 2025
Alan Jacobs, Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Baylor University in the USA has written a relaxed and engaging introduction
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The Unknown Unknown posted on 05 Aug 2025
I can’t quite remember when I first noticed that bookshops had started to position small, essay-length paperbacks ....