Inspiring Older Readers
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It’s all about branding when it comes to the Master of Suspense posted on 28 Aug 2024
If, like me, you’re constantly trawling every shop you can think of for bargain bookish finds....
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The pleasures of cheap, sensational books posted on 03 Jul 2024
If you’re old enough, cast your mind back to the days when Woolworths or W.H. Smiths stocked a range of books...
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Remembering radical bookselling in the 1980s posted on 12 Jun 2024
Regular guest contributor to the Letterpress Project, Alun Severn worked in radical bookselling in the mid-80s and has written a reminiscence of this time
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The Times Authors Number 2: George Orwell posted on 05 Jun 2024
Back at the start of the 1970s when I was beginning to discover the excitement of reading and literature, I relied heavily on the Sunday broadsheets
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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.