Inspiring Older Readers
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The Sign of the Book posted on 01 Oct 2019
Back in June 2019, I reviewed Dunning’s third instalment of his biblio-detective series featuring the ex-policeman turned book dealer, Cliff Janeway.
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The Making of Poetry posted on 27 Sep 2019
Literary biography and literary criticism can often be a difficult read if you’re not an avid student of those genres...
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When I Grow Up posted on 24 Sep 2019
Sometimes a memoir of this kind can tell you more about the writer in the way it’s told rather than in the contents.
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Critical Essays posted on 22 Sep 2019
It’s not a revolutionary statement to say that the very best of Orwell’s writing is to be found not in his novels but his essays...
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Another view on Albert Camus’ The Plague posted on 19 Sep 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn brings out some important additional ways of reading Camus' masterpiece.
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Night Boat To Tangier posted on 16 Sep 2019
The setting for Kevin Barry’s extraordinary new novel – tough, lyrical, referential and intense – is the Spanish ferry port of Algeciras...
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Black & White: A portrait of Aubrey Beardsley posted on 13 Sep 2019
I last read this rather beautifully produced little essay back when I was just 19 ...
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The Labyrinth of the Spirits posted on 06 Sep 2019
This 800+ page novel concludes the quartet of linked sequence that are grouped together under the collective title, The Cemetery of Forgotten Books
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible posted on 03 Sep 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, with the help of Peter Pomerantsev, pulls back the curtain on the bizarre power-games taking place in Putin's Russia
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Best Black Magic Stories posted on 01 Sep 2019
Sometimes you’re drawn to a delicious looking bauble or plaything and you must have it ...