Inspiring Older Readers
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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'.
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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...