Inspiring Older Readers
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Wifedom posted on 09 Nov 2023
Eileen Maud Blair (née O'Shaughnessy) married George Orwell in 1936 and the two lived together until 1945 ...
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The Night of the Hunter posted on 05 Nov 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds Davis Grubb's Southern Gothic novel "a bleak vision of the world, but ultimately not an entirely pessimistic one".
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Lincoln in the Bardo posted on 02 Nov 2023
In 2017 U.S. author, George Saunders published his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo ...
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The Man Who Was Thursday posted on 31 Oct 2023
Europe at the turn of the 19th into the 20th century was a place of political ferment. Revolution and fear of revolution was in the air..
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Magnificent Rebels: The first Romantics and the invention of the self posted on 26 Oct 2023
At the end of the 18th century revolution was in the air – politically and intellectually.
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The Magician posted on 22 Oct 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads The Magician by Colm Tóibín and finds it is long, intense, intellectually complex and grand in its ambitions.
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Constellation of Genius posted on 19 Oct 2023
I'm temperamentally disinclined to believe that epoch-making changes in history or culture...
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American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton posted on 17 Oct 2023
I imagine that the name of Edith Hamilton (1867 – 1963) will be a new one for very many British readers
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The Painted Veil posted on 15 Oct 2023
A good friend of the Letterpress Project has said to me that the short stories of Somerset Maugham are underrated and deserve to be more widely read.
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Rereading The Bog People by P. V. Glob posted on 12 Oct 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reassesses the literary impact of P. V. Glob’s book, The Bog People, first published in English translation by Faber in 1969