Inspiring Older Readers
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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
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre posted on 17 Jan 2020
The real identity of the author who wrote under the pen name of B. Traven is one of literature’s great mysteries.
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To Walk The Night posted on 13 Jan 2020
To Walk The Night was the first full-length novel by a man who made his name both as a publisher and as a writer of science fiction/fantasy...
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood posted on 10 Jan 2020
As a teenager growing up in the 1970s, I learnt quite a bit about the cruel Apartheid regime of South Africa
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The White Guard posted on 07 Jan 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads a fictional account of the aftermath of the Russian Revolution in which chaos and confusion are the key players
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Children’s Picturebooks: The art of visual storytelling posted on 06 Jan 2020
One of the more encouraging developments over recent years has been the growing acknowledgement of the importance of children's literature
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Bowie’s Bookshelf: the hundred books that changed David Bowie’s life posted on 02 Jan 2020
Since David Bowie’s untimely death at the age of just 69 in 2016, there have been numerous articles and musings about his love of books and reading