Inspiring Older Readers
-
A Moveable Feast posted on 01 Dec 2021
Published posthumously in 1964 following the author’s suicide in 1961, A Moveable Feast is a memoire of his early career in Paris
-
Trent’s Last Case posted on 25 Nov 2021
Amongst aficionados of crime writing’s Golden Age, Trent’s Last Case by Eric Clerihew Bentley has something of legendary status.
-
Let Me Tell You What I Mean posted on 22 Nov 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads a new collection of previously uncollected essays by Joan Didion
-
Selected Tales by Algernon Blackwood posted on 18 Nov 2021
The name of Algernon Blackwood (1869 – 1951) is synonymous with tales of the unexpected, supernatural or ‘weird’.
-
The World in Winter posted on 16 Nov 2021
John Christopher, the pen name of Sam Youd, is remembered (if at all) as the man who wrote the science fiction series Tripods aimed at teenagers
-
Rereading Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall posted on 10 Nov 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reappraises Evelyn Waugh's novel of 1928, written when he was just 25 years old.
-
The Radical Twenties posted on 07 Nov 2021
Lucas has given his 1997 study a useful sub-title when it comes to describing the contents: “Aspects of Writing, Politics and culture"
-
Souvenir posted on 03 Nov 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Michael Bracewell’s latest book, Souvenir, a slender volume, part essay, part memoir, part tone poem.
-
Words and Pictures posted on 31 Oct 2021
Subtitled ‘Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition’ and written by the usually reliable Jenny Uglow...
-
Rumpole posted on 27 Oct 2021
I recently picked up a Folio Society edition of selected stories featuring John Mortimer’s crusty but essentially liberal legal-eagle, Horace Rumpole.