Inspiring Older Readers
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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'.
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The Norfolk Mystery posted on 05 Jun 2025
So where do you stand on the issue of ‘comic’ thriller/detective fiction?
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Matryona’s House and other stories posted on 02 Jun 2025
Guest writer and reviewer, Alun Severn is drawn to read a classic short story by Solzhenitsyn by the superb design aesthetic of the Penguin jacket
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Powers of Reading: From Plato to Audiobooks posted on 29 May 2025
Peter Szendy, a French philosopher and musicologist, is the David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University
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The Celestial Omnibus posted on 25 May 2025
When I stumbled on this book in a second-hand shop, it was the name Ernest Bramah that caught my eye...
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Scablands and Other Stories posted on 20 May 2025
Here at the Letterpress Project we’ve been fortunate enough to have a long-standing connection with the talented author, Jonathan Taylor.
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The Stone Raft posted on 18 May 2025
I’ve seen Jose Saramago’s novel, The Stone Raft cited as an example of ‘magic realism’
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The Ministry of Fear posted on 14 May 2025
Back in 2016, one of our esteemed contributors, Alan Severn, wrote a piece about Graham Greene
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State of Ridicule: A history of satire in English literature posted on 11 May 2025
This is a huge book in every sense of that word: