Inspiring Older Readers
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House of the Sleeping Beauties posted on 21 Jul 2024
Kawabata is, I think, something of an acquired taste. He was Japan’s first ever winner of a Nobel Prize winner...
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A Dry White Season posted on 17 Jul 2024
André Brink (1935-2015), a South African novelist who wrote in Afrikaans as well as English...
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Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and Humanist posted on 15 Jul 2024
My guess is that if you’ve ever heard of Leon Battista Alberti (1404 – 1472) it will be because of two things
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Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship posted on 08 Jul 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads 'Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship' and finds it a tragic story 'deeply evocative and exhaustively researched
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Full Dark House posted on 30 Jun 2024
Full Dark House (2003) is the very first novel to feature the detective duo of Arthur Bryant and John May.
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The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars posted on 26 Jun 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads The Real and the Romantic, Frances Spalding’s huge survey of English art between the wars
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The Children of Men posted on 23 Jun 2024
Fans of P.D. James are more likely to think of her as a crime or thriller writer rather than a writer of dystopian fiction
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Junkie posted on 18 Jun 2024
So what is this? A memoir written under the pseudonym of William Lee or a novel written by William Burroughs – or maybe both?
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Bullet Train posted on 16 Jun 2024
I think the rise and rise in popularity of young Japanese authors in translation has been one of the most remarkable features of the literary landscape
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The Long Divorce posted on 09 Jun 2024
I’ve written extensively about the work of Bruce Montgomery (aka Edmund Crispin) elsewhere on this site