Inspiring Older Readers
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Public Library and Other Stories posted on 15 Nov 2015
I was genuinely thrilled to see that there would be a new collection of Ali Smith short stories ,,,,
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Once in a House on Fire posted on 11 Nov 2015
Guest post by Yushra Fatima. I first saw this book in my brother’s room after he had to read it for his assignment a few years ago. ...
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I Am Legend posted on 09 Nov 2015
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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Mr Norris Changes Trains posted on 08 Nov 2015
Published in 1935, Mr Norris Changes Trains, is the first part of what would become the Berlin Stories
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The Pearl posted on 31 Oct 2015
Steinbeck’s novella reworks and fleshes-out a Mexican folk tale about what happens when a poor fisherman and his family find....
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Slade House posted on 30 Oct 2015
When I started reading Mitchell’s latest, shortish, novel I thought I was going to get an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek chiller....
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Rabbit, Run posted on 30 Oct 2015
I think it must be the best part of forty years since I read Updike’s breakthrough novel, Rabbit, Run.
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We are all completely beside ourselves posted on 29 Oct 2015
This is a story about a very unusual American childhood in which Rosemary appears to be the only surviving sibling of an unconventional family.
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Careless People posted on 20 Oct 2015
By the time I'd finished reading this book I really couldn't answer a fundamental question..........
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Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew posted on 18 Oct 2015
This is not an easy read but it is a powerful one. A mix of ethnographic study and gut-wrenching memoir,