Inspiring Older Readers
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Blood Meridian posted on 09 Nov 2022
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Cormac McCarthy's shocking novel that he describes as a ‘cowboy novel startlingly reinvented as Jacobean tragedy'
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Free Fall posted on 06 Nov 2022
Published in 1959 and Golding’s fourth novel, Free Fall, takes us into the mind of the spiritually (and physically) tormented artist, Sammy Mountjoy.
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning posted on 26 Oct 2022
As a new English Literature undergraduate in the early 1970s, I have a vivid memory ....
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader posted on 23 Oct 2022
The eighteen short essays that make up this collection are not just entertaining diversions for bibliophiles but something closer to a confessional by the
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Rum Punch posted on 06 Oct 2022
Elmore Leonard’s 30th novel, Rum Punch is the source for what might be, for a good number of people, a much more familiar confection - Quentin Tarantino’s
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Billy Liar posted on 03 Oct 2022
Keith Waterhouse (1929 - 2009) was, in many ways, the archetypal tabloid journalist from the heady days of Fleet Street in the 60s & 70s
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs posted on 29 Sep 2022
I have often thought that, living here in the UK, I have been part of a lucky generation that has never directly experienced war on our soil
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer posted on 22 Sep 2022
From the date of its publication in 1985, Patrick Süskind’s Perfume has divided opinion.
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Flying Snakes & Griffin Claws: and Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities posted on 15 Sep 2022
Stanford University research scholar, Adrienne Mayor is a renowned historian and classical folklore academic ....
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The Fitzrovians: A portrait of Bohemian society 1900 - 1955 posted on 12 Sep 2022
I very much enjoyed reading Hugh David’s social history of homosexuality in the UK - On Queer Street - which was published in the late 1990s