Inspiring Older Readers
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Rivethead posted on 08 Nov 2019
I first read this book well over a decade ago – it was first published in the early 1990s – and, in my memory at least, I really liked it.
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Rise Up! The Art of Protest posted on 07 Nov 2019
Jo Rippon has worked in with Amnesty International to develop a book, ostensibly for a teen market, that introduces its readers to the idea of protest.
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Wifredo Lam: The EY Exhibition posted on 05 Nov 2019
Sitting on its own in a box of assorted bric-a-brac outside a local junk shop I stumbled across a near perfect copy of this Tate Gallery publication
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Blindness posted on 02 Nov 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Blindness by José Saramago and finds it may be the key to open up the the author's otherwise daunting canon
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Summoned By Bells posted on 29 Oct 2019
To a lot of people it might seem odd that I feel I’m confessing to something a little bit sinful by saying that I’ve got a soft spot for John Betjeman
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Flowers for Algernon posted on 27 Oct 2019
First published in 1966, Flowers for Algernon in novel form was the result of an adaptation of American author, Daniel Keyes’ successful...
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An Interview with Terry Geo posted on 24 Oct 2019
An Interview with Terry Geo
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Solaris posted on 23 Oct 2019
What good is a label if pretty much everyone disagrees about how you use it?
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Rereading John Hersey’s Hiroshima posted on 21 Oct 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn revisits John Hersey's classic account of the use of the first nuclear weapon in war
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The Testaments posted on 18 Oct 2019
If you’re interested in books and reading you can’t have missed the huge promotional blitz that has surrounded the release of The Testaments....