Inspiring Older Readers
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The Siege posted on 07 Sep 2021
Albania has always been something of an enigma within Europe and is still seen as a bit of a puzzle....
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Life Among the Savages posted on 02 Sep 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Shirley Jackson's "slightly queasy, sinister ...account of the pressures....of raising four children."
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Max Carrados Mysteries posted on 29 Aug 2021
Ernest Bramah was the pen name of Ernest Brammah Smith (1868 – 1942), an intensely private man who was also a prolific and hugely successful author.
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Exile and the Kingdom posted on 25 Aug 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Albert Camus' only collection of short stories that are 'more akin to existentialist parables'
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The Book Collectors of Daraya posted on 22 Aug 2021
I still find it hard to really comprehend the way a series of small, peaceful but determined anti-government protests during 2011 in Damascus,
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Goodbye to Berlin posted on 16 Aug 2021
Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical novel depicting Weimar Germany in the years prior to the outbreak of World War...
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Weather posted on 10 Aug 2021
There was a lot of praise in the world of literary criticism for Jenny Offill’s 2014 novel, The Dept. of Speculation .....
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A Bookshop in Algiers posted on 05 Aug 2021
Edmond Charlot almost inadvertently became one of the heroes of 20th century book selling and publishing...
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Berlin Finale posted on 01 Aug 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn wrestles with Heinz Rein's post-war analysis of German rebuilding and the cost that Nazism exacted.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle posted on 28 Jul 2021
I think it’s fair to say that Shirley Jackson’s literary reputation has never been higher than it is at the moment ...