Inspiring Older Readers
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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 ..
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Reading Chernobyl posted on 05 Aug 2019
Guest writer, Alun Severn reads two very different accounts of one of the most terrifying events of the late 20th century - the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
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Monsignor Quixote posted on 03 Aug 2019
I think it’s true to say that there is a general impression that by the 1980s when Greene had reached his late 70s, he was somewhat coasting as a writer
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The Romance of the Book posted on 01 Aug 2019
Published in 1996 by the US-based Birch Brook Press, The Romance of the Book is a selection of excerpts from essays, novels, autobiography and even travel
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Rereading Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach posted on 28 Jul 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reconsiders his first impressions of McEwan's novella
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Naomi’s Room posted on 27 Jul 2019
Guest reviewer, Yushra Fatima reads a supernatural mystery that's not for the faint-hearted.
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Wide Sargasso Sea posted on 25 Jul 2019
Wide Sargasso Sea is literally a breath-taking novel. The cloying, steamy, heavy atmosphere of the book forces you to gasp uncomfortably
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The Drowned World posted on 23 Jul 2019
In the absence of a more obvious or truly representative genre to pop them in, Ballard’s novels often get described as science fiction.
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Tressell: The Real Story of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists posted on 20 Jul 2019
There’s something almost legendary about Robert Tressell’s only book, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
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Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship posted on 17 Jul 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn considers the pleasures and pitfalls of literary memoir with a specific focus on Alan Taylor's portrait of Muriel Spark