Inspiring Older Readers
-
This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death posted on 04 Dec 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Harold Brodkey's memoir of the AIDS illness that eventually killed him and finds something remarkable.
-
The Diver’s Game posted on 02 Dec 2020
U.S. novelist, Jesse Ball’s dystopian ‘parable’ was included in The New Yorker’s best books of 2019 and garnered a host of admiring and positive reviews.
-
Bodies from the Library posted on 29 Nov 2020
Bodies from the Library is the first of what is currently three (soon to become four) volumes of short stories
-
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.
-
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.
-
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
-
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'.
-
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.
-
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
-
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...