Inspiring Older Readers
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The Volunteer posted on 26 Nov 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn is impressed by Jack Fairweather's account of a remarkable episode in the horror that was Auschwitz.
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St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street posted on 24 Nov 2020
I’m constantly fascinated by the way different parts of big cities seem to develop an identity and life of their own.
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The Morbid Age: Britain between the wars posted on 20 Nov 2020
The twenty years that cover the time between the end of the First World War and the start of the Second has proved to be fruitful territory for historians
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All Souls posted on 18 Nov 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn remains resolutely unimpressed by the talents of Javier Marias and his novel, 'All Souls'.
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The Crow Road posted on 16 Nov 2020
This 500 page whopper of a book is, I suspect, the late Iain Banks’ most popular novel.
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How Many Miles to Babylon? posted on 05 Nov 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Jennifer Johnston's beautifully crafted novel of Anglo-Irish politics filtered through the lens of World War One
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater posted on 02 Nov 2020
Long before Huxley’s Doors of Perception, Hunter Thompson’s self-destructive excesses or the birth of psychedelic rock and pop music...
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The Man in the Red Coat posted on 27 Oct 2020
Guest writer, Alun Severn reads Julian Barnes' 'The Man in the Red Coat' and finds the author showing off his intellectual prowess to no good purpose.
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Double, Double posted on 22 Oct 2020
John Brunner John Brunner (1934 – 1995) is something of a lost figure of British science fiction..
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The Waters of Kronos posted on 20 Oct 2020
This comparatively short novel, which was published in 1960, won the National Book Award for Fiction in the States the following year.