Inspiring Older Readers
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Down and Out in Paris and London posted on 11 Dec 2024
In 1933, Down and Out in Paris and London was Orwell’s first full-length book
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Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography posted on 08 Dec 2024
I think you’d be hard-pushed to think of a literary classic whose reputation has taken such a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs...
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A Boy at the Hogarth Press & A Parcel of Time posted on 04 Dec 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reviews the reissue of two memoirs by Richard Kennedy
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Thatcher Stole My Trousers posted on 01 Dec 2024
There’s plenty to choose from when it comes to naming things that are emblematic of the dismal state of popular culture in the first half of the 1970s
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The Demon-Haunted World posted on 26 Nov 2024
The premature death of the US cosmologist and astronomer, Carl Sagan, at the age of 62 robbed the scientific community....
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A Physical Education: On Bullying, Discipline & Other Lessons posted on 26 Nov 2024
The first chapter made me angry. Angry because I remember Kes and the PE bully Brian Glover.
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The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams posted on 21 Nov 2024
The prolific U.S. novelist, Lawrence Block, now in his 86th year, is probably best known for his hard-boiled, alcohol dependent private investigator
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde posted on 19 Nov 2024
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is another example of a ‘classic’
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Administer the Laughing Gas posted on 13 Nov 2024
I don’t read a lot of poetry these days, partly because I don’t spend enough time being quiet and reflective
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It Can’t Happen Here posted on 10 Nov 2024
Published in 1935 this novel sat around in relative obscurity until late last year ...