Inspiring Older Readers
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Winds of October posted on 06 Oct 2017
Given that this year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the start of the 1917 Russian Revolution, it’s probably not too surprising ....
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The Unsung Sixties: Memoirs of Social Innovation posted on 04 Oct 2017
I think that when people wax lyrical about the exciting, innovative 1960s they tend to use it as a kind of shorthand
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Enigma posted on 02 Oct 2017
Regular guest reviewer, Alun Severn takes a look at a book he thinks sits alongside the best of Le Carre, Greene or Ambler.
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Wild Things posted on 01 Oct 2017
I really wanted to love this book – especially in light of a whole series of very positive reviews it received on publication.
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The Bookshop Strikes Back posted on 01 Oct 2017
You can be forgiven if, like me, this pocket-size booklet published in 2013 passed you by.
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A Fire On The Moon posted on 29 Sep 2017
A couple of weeks ago we published a really excellent review of Mailer’s A Fire On The Moon by one of our regular guest reviewers, Alun Severn
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When Breath Becomes Air posted on 27 Sep 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reviews the emotional memoir of a brilliant surgeon and his untimely death.
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Time of Desecration posted on 25 Sep 2017
I have half a dozen of Moravia’s novels on my bookshelves but I must confess that it’s been the best part of 30 years since I last read one.
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Tobermory posted on 21 Sep 2017
This is the shortest of short stories but one that never fails to give me pleasure.
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The Day of the Locust posted on 20 Sep 2017
History has plenty to tell us about the kind of society we have today and Nathanael West’s icy little satire of Hollywood America...