Inspiring Older Readers
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Classic Covers: The Grapes of Wrath posted on 18 Sep 2018
The dust jacket produced for John Steinbeck’s 1939 classic, The Grapes of Wrath is one of those that can claim to be almost as admired as the book itself.
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Grief is the thing… posted on 16 Sep 2018
Guest writer, Alun Severn reads two books that mine the difficult subject of grief and finds "both are books that will burn brightly in your imagination"
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Caring For The Careworn: Sad-Faced Boy posted on 04 Sep 2018
If you are a book collector or you are in the process of building up your own personal library, you may have looked for advice.....
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in Just-spring posted on 14 Aug 2018
In 1972 when I rolled-up for Freshers Week at Bangor University we were shuttled into the main hall where various student societies were desperate ...
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FMS in my library posted on 26 Jul 2018
I wonder if you’ve heard about a condition known as False Memory Syndrome (FMS)?
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Adrian Mitchell’s Poetry and Protest: To Whom It May Concern (Tell me lies about Vietnam) posted on 15 Jul 2018
This weekend the USA’s most controversial President since ‘Tricky Dicky’ Nixon paid a visit to the UK
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Classic Covers: Lord of the Flies posted on 12 Jul 2018
Classic Covers is an occasional appreciation of first edition book jackets from our own collection.
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Meeting the celebrities down at the bookshop posted on 10 Jul 2018
The other day when I was searching a second hand book market site online looking for Luke Reinhart’s The Dice Man
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Over precious about precious books? posted on 27 Jun 2018
I always feel cross when I see some of the damage inflicted on library books....
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Joining the literary dots posted on 24 Jun 2018
Guest writer, Alun Severn finds himself taking an unexpected literary journey when one book just leads to another...