Inspiring Older Readers
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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.
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The Radetzky March posted on 05 Jun 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds The Radetzky March is "a bleak but beautiful book whose real subjects..are dissolution and mortality".
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The Child posted on 02 Jun 2020
Guest reviewer, Yushra Fatima finds herself riveted by the chilling tale of a child serial-killer...
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Death in Venice posted on 28 May 2020
As the Covid-19 virus rampages around the world and we’re effectively confined to our houses...
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Rereading Atonement (and more) posted on 22 May 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn rereads what is possibly Ian McEwan's most famous novel
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Terrible Honesty posted on 18 May 2020
Ann Douglas is Parr Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature and Special Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia ...
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Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye posted on 12 May 2020
It’s always astonished me that Edward Burra has never been anything like as famous as many of his contemporaries in the world of British 20th century art.