Inspiring Older Readers
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Le Grande Meaulnes posted on 17 Jan 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds that Le Grand Meaulnes may be flawed but the mounting sense of tragic loss that pervades it is beautifully realised.
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The Stepford Wives posted on 14 Jan 2024
It’s a tribute to both Ira Levin’s novel and to the ubiquitous popularity of the 1975 movie adaptation directed by Brian Forbes...
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Sexing the Cherry posted on 10 Jan 2024
I have a vivid memory of buying this novel from Waterstones in Birmingham when it was first released in 1989...
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Reflections from a Bookshop Window posted on 03 Jan 2024
Published in 1994, Clive Linklater’s Reflections from a Bookshop Window feels like the precursor of what has become a somewhat cliched format ..
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The Woman in Black posted on 01 Jan 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn returns to discover Susan Hill's classic ghost story is a Christmas cracker
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The Deductions of Col. Gore posted on 20 Dec 2023
As I noted in my previously published review of his novel, Nightmare, Lynn Brock was the pseudonym of Irish playwright, Alexander Patrick McAllister.
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The Painter of Battles posted on 13 Dec 2023
Award-winning Spanish author, Arturo Pérez-Reverte is probably best known in the UK for The Dumas Club
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Doppelganger: A trip into the mirror world posted on 10 Dec 2023
Naomi Klein’s incisive political polemics have been a must-read for me ever since I picked up No Logo....
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Rereading Doris Lessing’s Collected African Stories posted on 06 Dec 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reinvestigates the African sort stories of Doris Lessing and admires 'her crystalline prose'.
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An Awfully Big Adventure posted on 03 Dec 2023
Famously nominated for the Booker Prize five times but never coming out the winner....