Inspiring Older Readers
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Shakespeare and Company: A history of the rag & bone shop of the heart posted on 17 Feb 2020
There are very few bookshops that become famous in their own right for being legendary institutions...
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The Street posted on 13 Feb 2020
Ann Petry (real name Ann Lane) wasn’t an author I’d ever heard of until I read Tayari Jones’ reflections on her
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The Great Fire posted on 10 Feb 2020
It’s a bit of a cliché to call an author ‘a writers writer’ but in the case of Australian novelist, Shirley Hazzard, it’s a phrase I think is fully
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Breakfast with Lucian: A Portrait of the Artist posted on 07 Feb 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds himself both fascinated and a little repelled by an intimate glimpse into the life of Lucian Freud.
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The Graduate posted on 03 Feb 2020
Benjamin Braddock is 21, he’s a brilliant student, he’s just graduated and he finds himself unable to come to terms with the seeming hollowness ...
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The Truth about Murder posted on 31 Jan 2020
It is always a treat to find a captivating crime novel to devour over a couple of lazy days.
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A Walk On The Wild Side posted on 28 Jan 2020
Nelson Algren (1909 – 1981) is probably best known as a novelist of the world of the outsider...
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Orlando posted on 25 Jan 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Virginia Woolf's experimental novel which meditates on the nature of identity and passion
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Lie With Me posted on 23 Jan 2020
Philippe Besson is big news in France and has a quite prolific twenty or so books to his name.
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This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality posted on 20 Jan 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Peter Pomerantsev's latest exposé of the impact of new technologies on the old-fashioned art of propaganda