Inspiring Older Readers
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy posted on 09 Jul 2020
If your first encounter with Douglas Adams’ extraordinary feat of philosophically genre-bending comic imagination was via the original 1978 radio version
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Address Unknown posted on 07 Jul 2020
Guest reviewer, Simon Barton recommends a book which has become a forgotten classic of fiction that charts the rise of Nazism.
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The Erotic World of Faery posted on 04 Jul 2020
Published in 1972, I’m not sure whether it was the author, her editor or the publisher who decided on this title...
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland posted on 01 Jul 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads a perceptive account of the Troubles by Patrick Radden Keefe that won the 2019 Orwell Prize for political writing.
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The Sign of Four posted on 29 Jun 2020
Sherlock Holmes has become such a piece of shared cultural currency that we no longer turn much of a hair at the liberties taken by modern adaptations ..
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Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow posted on 26 Jun 2020
When this book was released in 1993 it created quite a stir and for a while it was the book to read.
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The Lighthouse posted on 23 Jun 2020
Alison Moore’s debut novel from 2012, produced by the innovative Salt Publishing, was unexpectedly shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
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The Flanders Panel posted on 15 Jun 2020
Sandwiched between the truly excellent, Fencing Master in 1988 and his most famous novel, The Club Dumas of 1993....
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The Lost Books of Jane Austen posted on 12 Jun 2020
OK. Full disclosure. I can’t abide the novels of Jane Austen.
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The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress posted on 09 Jun 2020
Beryl’s last novel, unfinished at her death in 2010 but tidied-up for posthumous publication by her editor, is still vintage Bainbridge.