Inspiring Older Readers
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On the shelf posted on 08 Mar 2019
The recent death of fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld generated a series of obituaries that noted the fact that he was an avid book collector ...
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Rereading Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby posted on 18 Feb 2019
Guest writer, Alun Severn rereads Fitzgerald's classic, 'The Great Gatsby' and considers what makes this a near-perfect creation
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Classic Covers: Festival At Fairbridge posted on 04 Feb 2019
If the job of a dust jacket is to capture and represent the spirit of the book it has been designed for and to catch the attention of potential readers..
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Strike a Pose! Why do we like looking at photographs of writers? posted on 30 Jan 2019
Over the weekend I was determined to try and stay away from my computer keyboard...
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The Oxford Hysteria of English Poetry posted on 09 Jan 2019
Poetry collections don’t sell in anything like the numbers fiction achieves but it wasn’t always so.
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Paint Me A Book posted on 03 Jan 2019
It’s funny how books can invade all the little spaces of your life.
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Classic Covers: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley posted on 22 Dec 2018
Huxley’s novel of a future dystopia seems to especially attract book designers and book jacket artists ...
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Charity Bookshops: what are they for? posted on 03 Dec 2018
You may be scratching your head and wondering why on earth I should ask such an obvious question.
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Poem in October posted on 18 Nov 2018
I still receive the alumnus magazine from Bangor University – somehow they’ve always managed to track me down
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Classic Covers: Denis Piper’s artwork for George Orwell’s novels posted on 14 Nov 2018
At the end of the 1950s and into the early 1960s, Secker and Warburg printed a new edition of George Orwell’s novels...