Inspiring Older Readers
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The Wall Jumper posted on 01 Oct 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Peter Schneider's "curiously European thing, a not-quite-novel" written seven years before the fall of the Berlin wall.
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Hamnet posted on 28 Sep 2020
The details of the life of William Shakespeare and his family are so thinly documented that they provide plenty of potential for a novelist to embroider
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The Year of Magical Thinking posted on 23 Sep 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn rereads Joan Didion's classic study of traumatic grief.
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Vincent's Books: Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him posted on 22 Sep 2020
In those heady pre-Covid days when we were footloose and fancy free, there was nothing I enjoyed more...
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Strangers on a Train posted on 20 Sep 2020
This was Highsmith’s debut novel published in 1950 and comes five years before her more famous The Talented Mr Ripley..
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At the Strangers’ Gate posted on 14 Sep 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads New Yorker columnist Adam Gopnik's memoir of his early years in New York.
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A Passage to India posted on 13 Sep 2020
In 1912 Forster embarked on what would be a six month trip to India that was inspired by his unrequited romantic feelings for a young Indian man
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The Illustrated Man posted on 11 Sep 2020
Although Ray Bradbury is usually categorised as a writer of science fiction or maybe ‘speculative fiction’, I think that putting him a genre box...
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A special sleepover posted on 09 Sep 2020
A special sleepover: a memory of her father by Karen Argent
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What is Life: understand biology in five steps posted on 07 Sep 2020
Back in the dim and distant past biology was one of my favourite subjects at school and I did pretty well in the ‘O’ level exam at the end of my time there