Inspiring Older Readers
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Rum Punch posted on 06 Oct 2022
Elmore Leonard’s 30th novel, Rum Punch is the source for what might be, for a good number of people, a much more familiar confection - Quentin Tarantino’s
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Billy Liar posted on 03 Oct 2022
Keith Waterhouse (1929 - 2009) was, in many ways, the archetypal tabloid journalist from the heady days of Fleet Street in the 60s & 70s
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs posted on 29 Sep 2022
I have often thought that, living here in the UK, I have been part of a lucky generation that has never directly experienced war on our soil
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Art Matters posted on 26 Sep 2022
For a cohort of teenagers and those in their early twenties, Neil Gaiman is something of a guru ...
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer posted on 22 Sep 2022
From the date of its publication in 1985, Patrick Süskind’s Perfume has divided opinion.
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Quentin Blake: A Year of Drawings posted on 19 Sep 2022
At the time of peak lockdown in 2020 being effectively under Covid house-arrest, people found themselves doing uncharacteristically obsessive things
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Flying Snakes & Griffin Claws: and Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities posted on 15 Sep 2022
Stanford University research scholar, Adrienne Mayor is a renowned historian and classical folklore academic ....
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The Fitzrovians: A portrait of Bohemian society 1900 - 1955 posted on 12 Sep 2022
I very much enjoyed reading Hugh David’s social history of homosexuality in the UK - On Queer Street - which was published in the late 1990s
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The Midwich Cuckoos posted on 08 Sep 2022
Published in 1957, The Midwich Cuckoos was the fourth science fiction novel to hit the bookshelves under the name of John Wyndham
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Nosing around other people’s bookshelves posted on 05 Sep 2022
If you are foolish enough to invite me into your house be prepared for me to make a beeline for your bookshelves,