Inspiring Older Readers
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Wartime Lies posted on 16 Oct 2020
Guest reviewer Alun Severn reads Louis Begley's novel that tells the wartime story of a child who witnessed the hell of the Holocaust.
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Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment posted on 13 Oct 2020
“Great demon kings are people controlled by their big egos, but sometimes their egos inspire them to aspire to realise the empty true nature of mind"
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The Shining Levels posted on 09 Oct 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads John Wyatt's 'early foray into the (nature writing) genre' and finds it 'light, playful and funny, full of enjoyment.'
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Piercing posted on 06 Oct 2020
In the still of night Kawashima stands over the cot of his baby daughter and watches while his wife sleeps nearby in their bed.
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The Bookseller’s Tale posted on 03 Oct 2020
I picked this book up fully expecting it to be another of those sardonic, tongue-in-cheek memoirs by a hoary old hand in the bookselling business.
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The Wall Jumper posted on 01 Oct 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Peter Schneider's "curiously European thing, a not-quite-novel" written seven years before the fall of the Berlin wall.
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Hamnet posted on 28 Sep 2020
The details of the life of William Shakespeare and his family are so thinly documented that they provide plenty of potential for a novelist to embroider
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The Year of Magical Thinking posted on 23 Sep 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn rereads Joan Didion's classic study of traumatic grief.
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Vincent's Books: Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him posted on 22 Sep 2020
In those heady pre-Covid days when we were footloose and fancy free, there was nothing I enjoyed more...
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Strangers on a Train posted on 20 Sep 2020
This was Highsmith’s debut novel published in 1950 and comes five years before her more famous The Talented Mr Ripley..