Inspiring Older Readers
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Prater Violet posted on 04 Mar 2025
This novella ( it’s only a touch over a hundred pages long) packs a deceptive amount between its covers.
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Pity posted on 02 Mar 2025
Pity is poet Andrew McMillan’s first novel and, like his poetry collections, it puts sexuality and identity in post-industrial Northern England icentre-sta
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The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell posted on 25 Feb 2025
Guest writer, Alun Severn reads The Crystal Spirit, a biography of George Orwell written by one of his closer friends
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Orbital posted on 19 Feb 2025
I’ve rather got out of the habit of automatically reading the Booker Prize winner every year
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The Heart in Winter posted on 12 Feb 2025
Every now and then a book comes along that stops you in your tracks ...
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I Am Legend posted on 08 Feb 2025
Richard Matheson’s sci-fi / horror hybrid has become something of a classic and is cited by many authors – Stephen King included....
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On Elizabeth Bishop posted on 05 Feb 2025
If, like me you’ve had the chance to see and hear Colm Tóibín talk about his writing and those writers he admires...
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying posted on 02 Feb 2025
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn returns to George Orwell's 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' - novel the author himself disliked.
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Three Assassins posted on 29 Jan 2025
Back in the summer months of 2024, I read and reviewed Isaka’s Bullet Train and I found it a heady, helter-skelter ride
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The Study: The inner life of Renaissance Libraries posted on 27 Jan 2025
For those of you coming to this review and perhaps wondering what Andrew Hui’s book is about, I can’t do better than quote the author himself