Inspiring Older Readers
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The Strange Library posted on 01 Oct 2024
So another year slips past and once again, much to the chagrin and puzzlement of his fans, Haruki Murakami doesn’t get the Nobel prize for literature.
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Babbitt posted on 30 Sep 2024
Comparatively few novelists create a protagonist whose characteristics chime so perfectly with a social or economic phenomenon that the name enters ...
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Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus posted on 19 Sep 2024
There are lots of reasons why this book is difficult to review and all of them serve to obscure the actual story that Mary Shelley set down
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Literary Journeys: Mapping fictional travels across the world of literature posted on 17 Sep 2024
If you are a fan of literary fiction, here’s a book that is going to be on the table next to your favourite reading-chair
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A Capful O' Nails posted on 14 Sep 2024
Lost and forgotten books are frequently lost or forgotten for very good reasons....
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The Old Century & seven more years posted on 09 Sep 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Siegfried Sassoon’s 'most Proustian book', 'The Old Century & seven more years'
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich posted on 04 Sep 2024
Back in the early 1970s, reading One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was a landmark in my development as a reader
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Prater Violet posted on 02 Sep 2024
Published in 1946, this was Isherwood’s first novel following the more widely known and admired, Goodbye to Berlin.
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Death of an Idealist: In Search of Neil Aggett posted on 26 Aug 2024
In July of this year, I read and reviewed A Dry White Season, Andre Brink’s excoriating condemnation of the way the South African Apartheid state
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Memories of Mervyn Peake posted on 21 Aug 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn considers two memoirs of Mervyn Peake to better understand the extraordinary imagination behind the Gormenghast Trilogy