Inspiring Older Readers
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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 ...
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Magic Moments posted on 28 Aug 2019
Sutherland is an interesting and (always) combative literary critic and academic who has made something of a career out of out of speculative...
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The Coming of the Third Reich posted on 21 Aug 2019
I don’t personally subscribe to the view that history repeats itself but I certainly do think that studying history can help us understand the times ...
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The Invisible Man posted on 19 Aug 2019
Originally published as a weekly magazine serial, The Invisible Man is one of those stories that’s been abridged, made into movies...
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Through the Children’s Gate posted on 16 Aug 2019
Guest reviewer Alun Severn reads a selection of essays from a writer who helps define the output of the modern literary magazine
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Young Man With A Horn posted on 11 Aug 2019
Dorothy Baker was an American novelist who died from cancer at the age of 61 in 1968.
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Why you should read children’s books, even though you are so old and wise posted on 08 Aug 2019
Katherine Rundell’s passionate, polemical essay extolling the virtues of reading children’s literature throughout your life has been made available ..