Inspiring Older Readers
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The Monsters We Deserve posted on 24 Jul 2020
British-born Marcus Sedgwick has had a diverse career as bookseller, publisher, illustrator and successful writer for young adults
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Mudlarking posted on 21 Jul 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds himself fascinated by the etiquette of uncovering what the past has left behind for us to discover.
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Passing posted on 17 Jul 2020
Like so many long neglected Black authors of the so-called Harlem Renaissance of the late 1920s, Nella Larsen’s work has found a new audience..
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Tobacco Road posted on 14 Jul 2020
Setting a novel in the dustbowl of Georgia USA during the Great Depression of the Thirties really should give any reader a pretty strong signal ...
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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.