Inspiring Older Readers
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Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Lane posted on 19 Jun 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Jeremy Lewis’s magisterial biography of Allen Lane and the publishing house he founded, Penguin Books.
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold posted on 15 Jun 2023
Written late in his career – there was only one more work of fiction to come before his death in 1966 ...
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2001: A Space Odyssey posted on 12 Jun 2023
I had always assumed that Clarke’s book was a ‘novelisation’ (dreadful word) of the seminal science fiction movie....
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Burmese Days posted on 08 Jun 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads George Orwell's early, partially autobiographical novel about his time in colonial Burma
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The Mask of Dimitrios posted on 05 Jun 2023
Eric Ambler is not, I would suggest, a name well known to the modern day reader of thriller/spy/espionage literature ....
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The Man with the Golden Gun posted on 01 Jun 2023
When you’ve never read single word written by a writer who has become an iconic figure, what you pick up ....
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Fludd posted on 25 May 2023
Hilary Mantel, who died late last year, seems destined to be remembered and feted for her historical novels ....
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The Painted Veil posted on 22 May 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn champions a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, a writer he thinks may be unfairly out of fashion.
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Holy Disorders posted on 18 May 2023
The detective fiction of Edmund Crispin (real name Bruce Montgomery) is one of my go-to reads ...
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The Greatest Books You’ll Never Read posted on 15 May 2023
Even the very best authors include in their list of publications (and intended publications) a title that they planned to complete but failed to do so.