Inspiring Older Readers
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Blindness posted on 02 Nov 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Blindness by José Saramago and finds it may be the key to open up the the author's otherwise daunting canon
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Summoned By Bells posted on 29 Oct 2019
To a lot of people it might seem odd that I feel I’m confessing to something a little bit sinful by saying that I’ve got a soft spot for John Betjeman
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Flowers for Algernon posted on 27 Oct 2019
First published in 1966, Flowers for Algernon in novel form was the result of an adaptation of American author, Daniel Keyes’ successful...
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Solaris posted on 23 Oct 2019
What good is a label if pretty much everyone disagrees about how you use it?
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Rereading John Hersey’s Hiroshima posted on 21 Oct 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn revisits John Hersey's classic account of the use of the first nuclear weapon in war
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The Testaments posted on 18 Oct 2019
If you’re interested in books and reading you can’t have missed the huge promotional blitz that has surrounded the release of The Testaments....
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead posted on 12 Oct 2019
For a boy raised on television drama, an encounter with an absurdist comedy was as bewildering and alien as it’s possible to get ...
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A Child of the Jago posted on 05 Oct 2019
First published in 1896, A Child of the Jago is arguably the most significant novel from a school of writing that’s often referred to as ‘slum literature’.
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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...