Inspiring Older Readers
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The First Time Ever posted on 17 Feb 2019
I’m not sure how often the label ‘British Folk Revival’ has been used over the past fifty or sixty years ...
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Booked To Die posted on 15 Feb 2019
In my experience as a reader, putting together a convincing detective yarn that incorporates books and bibliophiles is not an easy task...
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A Confederacy of Dunces posted on 13 Feb 2019
This is one of those novels that was destined to have a cult following...
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Somewhere Towards the End posted on 08 Feb 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn marks the passing of Diana Athill, one of the greats of British publishing in the 20th century.
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Revolutionary Road posted on 05 Feb 2019
Revolutionary Road, published in 1961, was Yates’ first novel and for the best part of forty years it all but vanished
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Stuff posted on 31 Jan 2019
Those of you familiar with the anarchic spirit of cartoonist Martin Rowson’s spectacularly vicious political satire won’t be in the least surprised...
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Sabbath’s Theater posted on 28 Jan 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn continues his reading of Philip Roth and discovers that even the greatest names in literature can have a bad day in the office.
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Homintern : How gay culture liberated the modern world posted on 25 Jan 2019
I seem to be using the phrase ‘an interesting book that ultimately fails to deliver quite what it promised’ a lot recently.
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In Sunlight or in Shadow : Stories inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper posted on 21 Jan 2019
Intriguingly enough, right at the start of this anthology, editor Lawrence Block tells us...
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The Secret Agent posted on 18 Jan 2019
In 1894 a bomb exploded in Greenwich Park, killing (accidentally) the person carrying it.