Inspiring Older Readers
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On Elizabeth Bishop posted on 05 Feb 2025
If, like me you’ve had the chance to see and hear Colm Tóibín talk about his writing and those writers he admires...
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying posted on 02 Feb 2025
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn returns to George Orwell's 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' - novel the author himself disliked.
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Three Assassins posted on 29 Jan 2025
Back in the summer months of 2024, I read and reviewed Isaka’s Bullet Train and I found it a heady, helter-skelter ride
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The Study: The inner life of Renaissance Libraries posted on 27 Jan 2025
For those of you coming to this review and perhaps wondering what Andrew Hui’s book is about, I can’t do better than quote the author himself
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A Thousand Feasts posted on 23 Jan 2025
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn is beguiled by the occasional writing of Nigel Slater
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Thomas Kyd: A Dramatist Restored posted on 12 Jan 2025
This is a book full of passion, scholarship and controversy - controversy both confronted and generated by the author
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The Divine Comedy posted on 01 Jan 2025
If you are thinking that 2025 might be the year in which you finally take on some of those great pieces of literature ...
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Time Come: Selected Prose posted on 18 Dec 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads journalism, essays and talks by a great dub-lyricist, cultural and political activist and reggae musician
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Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich posted on 15 Dec 2024
I’d be willing to bet that even the vast majority of those who profess never to read will have heard of Penguin Books as a brand.
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Down and Out in Paris and London posted on 11 Dec 2024
In 1933, Down and Out in Paris and London was Orwell’s first full-length book