Inspiring Older Readers
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The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah posted on 10 Jan 2019
This poet is well known for his charismatic personality and for a long time he has even been included on TV programmes...
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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 ...