Inspiring Older Readers
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The Oxford Hysteria of English Poetry posted on 09 Jan 2019
Poetry collections don’t sell in anything like the numbers fiction achieves but it wasn’t always so.
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Snow Country posted on 07 Jan 2019
Guest Reviewer, Alun Severn struggles to reconcile the poetry of Kawabata's prose with the "strangely inert characters"
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My Years at The Gotham Book Mart with Frances Steloff, Proprietor posted on 06 Jan 2019
The mid-town Manhattan bookstore, The Gotham Book Mart, which was in business from 1920 – 2007, was one of those venues that transcended its role as a shop
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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey posted on 01 Jan 2019
This is the first full length biography of Edward (Ted) Gorey....
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The Christmas Chronicles posted on 31 Dec 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn spends his holiday break reading the "deeply enjoyable and ..beautifully produced ... Christmas Chronicles."
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The Inferno posted on 29 Dec 2018
A while ago I reviewed Fred Hoyle’s earlier slice of science fiction hokum, The Black Cloud, and found it similar to watching a 1950s British ‘B’ movie
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Alexander Pope posted on 27 Dec 2018
If I went out onto the streets of my home town and asked a selection of the good burghers of Malvern to name a short list of the most famous...
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In Praise of Shadows posted on 23 Dec 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reviews a meditative masterpiece of classic Japanese literature
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Mad, Bad and Dangerous To Know: The fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce posted on 19 Dec 2018
Toibin’s book has its origins in a series of lectures he delivered in the USA ...
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The Enigma of Arrival posted on 13 Dec 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, returns to the work of V.S. Naipaul and ponders the proposition that 'great subjects are illuminated best by small dramas’