Inspiring Older Readers
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The Divine Comedy posted on 01 Jan 2025
If you are thinking that 2025 might be the year in which you finally take on some of those great pieces of literature ...
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Time Come: Selected Prose posted on 18 Dec 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads journalism, essays and talks by a great dub-lyricist, cultural and political activist and reggae musician
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Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich posted on 15 Dec 2024
I’d be willing to bet that even the vast majority of those who profess never to read will have heard of Penguin Books as a brand.
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Down and Out in Paris and London posted on 11 Dec 2024
In 1933, Down and Out in Paris and London was Orwell’s first full-length book
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Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography posted on 08 Dec 2024
I think you’d be hard-pushed to think of a literary classic whose reputation has taken such a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs...
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A Boy at the Hogarth Press & A Parcel of Time posted on 04 Dec 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reviews the reissue of two memoirs by Richard Kennedy
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Thatcher Stole My Trousers posted on 01 Dec 2024
There’s plenty to choose from when it comes to naming things that are emblematic of the dismal state of popular culture in the first half of the 1970s
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The Demon-Haunted World posted on 26 Nov 2024
The premature death of the US cosmologist and astronomer, Carl Sagan, at the age of 62 robbed the scientific community....
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A Physical Education: On Bullying, Discipline & Other Lessons posted on 26 Nov 2024
The first chapter made me angry. Angry because I remember Kes and the PE bully Brian Glover.
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The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams posted on 21 Nov 2024
The prolific U.S. novelist, Lawrence Block, now in his 86th year, is probably best known for his hard-boiled, alcohol dependent private investigator