Inspiring Older Readers
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Devil in a Blue Dress posted on 28 Aug 2025
First published in 1990, Devil in a Blue Dress is a mix of hard-boiled private-dick thriller and a commentary...
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Rural Hours posted on 24 Aug 2025
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads 'Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann'.
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The Scarlet Boy posted on 19 Aug 2025
I first discovered Calder-Marshall’s work when I read his extraordinary book, The Fair to Middling
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No Longer Human posted on 14 Aug 2025
First published in 1948, you will probably see a number of reviews that refer to Dazai’s novel as a classic of Japanese 20th century literature
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Paradise Lost: A Biography posted on 10 Aug 2025
Alan Jacobs, Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Baylor University in the USA has written a relaxed and engaging introduction
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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