Inspiring Older Readers
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Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How skiffle changed the world posted on 21 May 2021
Singer-songwriter Bragg proves himself to be the perfect chronicler of that short-lived musical outburst we’ve come to know as ‘skiffle’.
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Klara and the Sun posted on 12 May 2021
The publication of Ishiguro’s eighth novel seems, if the critical reception is to be believed, to seal his status as one of the world’s premier writers
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Burning the Books: A history of knowledge under attack posted on 10 May 2021
This sterling defence of libraries and archives and the need to defend these reservoirs of human ‘knowledge’ comes from the head honcho of The Bodleian
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Among the Gently Mad: strategies and perspectives for the book hunter in the twenty-first century posted on 08 May 2021
U.S. author, Basbanes is bibliophilic aristocracy and he can boast an impressive back catalogue of publications.......
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The Inimitable Jeeves posted on 05 May 2021
Choose to read a Wodehouse and you know exactly what you’re going to get – a carefully created comic world ....
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Goodbye, Columbus posted on 26 Apr 2021
A novella rather than a novel, Goodbye, Columbus was first published in The Paris Review ...
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The World In The Evening posted on 22 Apr 2021
,I’ve always felt a bit sorry for poor old Christopher Isherwood. His name always seems to get linked to, and live in the shadow of, W.H. Auden...
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Tropic of Cancer posted on 15 Apr 2021
It’s been over thirty years since I first read this book. I was astonished by it then and I have been astonished again this time around.
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Adventures of Hiram Holliday posted on 12 Apr 2021
The author of this rather charming fantasy was often fondly dismissive of his creation...........
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Milton and the English Revolution posted on 09 Apr 2021
Christopher Hill died at the ripe old age of 91 back in 2003 and it’s quite remarkable just how influential this Marxist historian was and still is...