Inspiring Older Readers
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A Private Cathedral posted on 21 Dec 2020
Despite the author’s advancing age and rumours that each novel will be his last, there actually seems to be no sign that his creative juices are drying up
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The Hair-Carpet Weavers posted on 16 Dec 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn steps out of his normal reading comfort zone to give Andreas Eschbach's science fiction epic a chance.
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1934 posted on 13 Dec 2020
Moravia (1907 – 1990) was one of Italy’s most prolific and widely translated 20th century authors – and one of the most politically committed.
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Selected Short Stories posted on 10 Dec 2020
In many ways, British born short story writer, William Wymark (W.W.) Jacobs is the epitome of the forgotten author.
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The Lunatic at Large posted on 07 Dec 2020
(Joe) Clouston (1870 – 1944) was the son of a clinical psychiatrist and part of a long linage that had its roots in Orkney
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.