Inspiring Older Readers
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Matters of Life & Death and Other Stories posted on 16 Mar 2022
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads short stories from Bernard MacLaverty and finds economy, wonderful control, peerless prose and acute observation
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Mudie’s Circulating Library & the Victorian Novel posted on 13 Mar 2022
In recent years we have become accustomed to some unwelcome discussions about the funding and future of our public libraries.
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Call For The Dead posted on 09 Mar 2022
Call For The Dead (aka The Deadly Affair) was John Le Carré’s first novel, published in 1961, and the one which introduces us to his greatest creation
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Don’t Look Now & Other Stories posted on 06 Mar 2022
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads some of Daphne Du Maurier's longer short stories and finds he's previously under-estimated her talents.
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The Dark Labyrinth posted on 23 Feb 2022
When I was in my late teens and early twenties and in something of an uncritical frenzy of discovery....
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The Promise posted on 16 Feb 2022
I’ve become accustomed in recent years to being underwhelmed by the winner of the Booker Prize ....
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Bookscout posted on 09 Feb 2022
Dunning, journalist, book dealer and novelist, is the author of some of the most well-regarded biblio-thrillers on the market.
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The Orchid Trilogy posted on 06 Feb 2022
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads The Orchid Trilogy – cunningly contrived autobiographical fiction built up in layers on the author’s own obsessions.
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The Best Of Me posted on 02 Feb 2022
This collection of short essays, fictions and musings constitutes Sedaris’ own selection of what he considers his best work
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The Seville Communion posted on 26 Jan 2022
Literate, even literary, page-turners are hard to come by in my experience.