Inspiring Older Readers
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The Friends of the National Libraries posted on 29 Jun 2017
Guest contributor, Linda Hart, asks if you ever wondered why so much of our literary heritage has ended up abroad and what we can do about it.
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The joys of sharing books with older readers posted on 22 Jun 2017
As an ex teacher I always enjoy doing one of our ' Wild Things and Gold Rings' events with children in playgroups, nurseries and schools.
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Colette at the table: M F K Fisher posted on 21 Jun 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn reviews the career of a writer he thinks is a 'strange, unrepeatable cross between Colette and Hemingway'.
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Going back to the source and drawing from the well posted on 16 Jun 2017
The fashion for drawing on or even reinterpreting mythology seems to ebb and flow.
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Pen and Scalpel: The new school of surgeon-writers posted on 11 Jun 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn considers the great writing that gives us a privileged look into the real world of the medical practitioner.
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Jane Austen: Sorry, but I just don’t get it posted on 31 May 2017
My time at university as an English Literature undergraduate student now feels so distant that I don’t have many memories I can wholly trust
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I really should be reading more poetry posted on 20 May 2017
When I was about 16 I started to develop the idea that I would have a career, or rather, a future in literature.
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Print them cheap and pile them high posted on 06 May 2017
When I first started buying books...
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Communing with radical spirits posted on 01 May 2017
In the two or three days after Easter I was lucky enough to spend time in Bournemouth when spring was springing...
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That George Orwell Look posted on 12 Apr 2017
When it came to his private life Eric Blair liked to keep himself to himself.