Inspiring Older Readers
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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.
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The White Road posted on 23 Jan 2022
The subtitle of this book is “(a) journey into obsession” which turns out to be a phrase that is just about the perfect encapsulation of the tone and spiri
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Poisoned Relations posted on 12 Jan 2022
I would imagine that majority of general readers will associate the name of Simenon with his most famous crime creation, Inspector Maigret
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The Compleat Flea posted on 09 Jan 2022
I’ve had this whimsical little book for over 40 years – I remember picking it up from a wire dump-bin in Woolworths...
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Closely Watched Trains and All My Cats posted on 05 Jan 2022
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn takes his chances with two novels by the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, beautifully repackaged in Penguin Modern Classics edition
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Childhood’s End posted on 02 Jan 2022
Many fans of science fiction consider Childhood’s End to be one of Clarke’s most important books...
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Lady, Lady, I Did It! posted on 29 Dec 2021
Ed McBain ( 1926 – 2005) was the pen name of the astonishingly prolific, Evan Hunter.
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Orwell’s Roses posted on 26 Dec 2021
You have to wonder just how many new ways into writing about the life and work of George Orwell are left to be found.