Inspiring Older Readers
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Hercule Poirot's Silent Night: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery posted on 19 May 2024
I guess we’re all reluctant to give up on our favourite literary characters.
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Keeping On Keeping On: Revisiting Alan Bennett’s diaries and memoirs on his 90th birthday posted on 15 May 2024
Guest writer, Alun Severn pays tribute to Alan Bennett and considers the diaries that make him a modern-day Pepys.
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Good anthologies: a new pleasure posted on 13 Mar 2024
Ever since I started reading with real intent, I’ve shied away from anthologies.
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Running aground with The Essex Serpent posted on 04 Jan 2024
If, like me, you are a ‘chain-reader' moving seamlessly from book at book, you’ll be aware of the distress that comes with the failure to find the ‘right’
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Notes in the margins posted on 27 Oct 2023
Few books are more evocative of my final year at university than the Dent hardback edition of Dylan Thomas’ collected poems
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Vintage Dystopia: design classics for the collector posted on 07 Aug 2023
Here at The Letterpress Project we never tire of promoting the physical book as an object of desire in its own right, regardless of author or content.
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Sometimes you just can’t resist… posted on 16 Jul 2023
Where do you stand on the question of owning multiple different editions of the same book?
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Special story posted on 11 May 2023
I always enjoy a new challenge when it comes to inspiring people about reading and relishing books.
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On Christmas Reading posted on 02 Jan 2023
Guest writer, Alun Severn writes about his Christmas holiday reading list - a list filled with triumphs and tribulations
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Whatever happened to the books in Barnes & Noble? posted on 30 Oct 2022
Here at the Letterpress Project we’ve been looking forward to a long-delayed trip to meet-up with friends in Charlotte, North Carolina.