Inspiring Older Readers
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The Murdstone Trilogy posted on 12 Dec 2021
Mal Peet, who died at the age of 67 in 2015, was much loved and admired by the children’s literature community ...
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Parnassus on Wheels posted on 08 Dec 2021
Parnassus on Wheels (1917) was actually the first novel published by the American writer, Christopher Morley...
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Anthony Blunt: His Lives posted on 05 Dec 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Miranda Carter's meticulously researched biography of the enigma that was Anthony Blunt, art expert and Soviet spy
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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
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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.
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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
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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’.
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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
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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.
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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"