Inspiring Older Readers
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Up the Junction posted on 13 Mar 2025
Just as with Dunn’s first full-length novel, Poor Cow, Up the Junction, which came along four years earlier in 1963...
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Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul posted on 10 Mar 2025
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn enjoys H.G. Wells' social satire of Edwardian lower-middle-class aspiration
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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.