Inspiring Older Readers
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The Unknown Unknown posted on 05 Aug 2025
I can’t quite remember when I first noticed that bookshops had started to position small, essay-length paperbacks ....
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The Spire posted on 31 Jul 2025
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads William Golding's 'The Spire' which he finds densely written, rich in metaphor, folklore and theology.
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Libraries of the Mind posted on 27 Jul 2025
I’ve been reading and collecting books for more years than I find comfortable to contemplate
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Rereading First Love, Last Rites posted on 22 Jul 2025
Guest writer, Alun Severn takes us back to Ian McEwan's first ever collection of short stories
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The Tiger in the Smoke posted on 17 Jul 2025
British novelists must have cursed their luck when the Government passed the 1956 Clean Air Act
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The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White posted on 08 Jul 2025
Guest writer, Alun Severn pays tribute to the work of Edmund White, who died in June of this year.
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The Haunted Bookshop posted on 29 Jun 2025
At the back end of 2021, I reviewed U.S. author, Christopher Morley’s first novel, Parnassus on Wheels (1917)
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Caliban Shrieks posted on 25 Jun 2025
I’ve commented before in previous reviews for this website, that it’s a puzzle to me just why some authors and their books....
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The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography posted on 22 Jun 2025
Hilary Holladay, a biographer, journalist, and scholar of modern and contemporary American poetry, has given us what is, I think, the first full biography
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Siblings posted on 18 Jun 2025
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds 'Siblings' is a novel that 'doesn’t really succeed but by way of compensation offers much more that is of interest'.