Inspiring Older Readers
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Bad Book Club posted on 13 Apr 2023
Back in late 2022 when I reviewed Robin Ince’s amiable confessional, Bibliomaniac, I noted then that:....
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Nightmare posted on 10 Apr 2023
Lynn Brock was the pseudonym of Irish playwright, Alexander Patrick McAllister who achieved considerable success as a ‘Golden Age’ detective novelist
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Love and Summer and The Story of Lucy Gault posted on 03 Apr 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn considers the merits of two later novels from William Trevor
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Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America posted on 30 Mar 2023
When I first started making regular visits to second hand bookshops in the UK, I would often see British book club versions of novels by Frank Yerby.
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The Stamboul Train posted on 26 Mar 2023
First published in 1932, The Stamboul Train (rechristened The Orient Express in the U.S.) was what you might call Greene’s ‘breakthrough’ novel.
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A Ghost at Noon posted on 22 Mar 2023
Published in its English translation in 1955, A Ghost at Noon was given the title, The Despised Husband in the USA
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s posted on 19 Mar 2023
Truman Capote’s beautifully crafted novella, Breakfast at Tiffany’s is likely to be the work that most people would associate him with
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Obelisk: A history of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press posted on 15 Mar 2023
There may be some people who know the author, Neil Pearson for his stage and television work but he’s also well-know in the book world...
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The Devil’s Carousel posted on 12 Mar 2023
Scottish author, Jeff Torrington (1935-2008) wasn’t by any stretch of the imagination a prolific writer.
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The White Lioness posted on 08 Mar 2023
Originally published in the UK in 2003, Mankell’s third instalment of his series of crime novels featuring his reluctant Swedish small-town detective...