Inspiring Older Readers
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Sum Total posted on 18 Oct 2018
I wonder who remembers Ray Gosling now? I suspect you have to be my sort of vintage – over 60 – or working in the media industry to recall...
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Patient X posted on 16 Oct 2018
Patient X by David Peace You can never go to a David Peace book expecting a straight-forward, linear narrative and you can pretty much guarantee that the l
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The Library of Shadows posted on 14 Oct 2018
There are times when my internal reader just wants to put on his metaphorical cardigan and slippers....
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Treasure Palaces: Great writers visit great museums posted on 11 Oct 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn has an unexpectedly pleasurable encounter with a book of essays in which writers talk about their favourite museums
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Hard Times posted on 05 Oct 2018
This might well be the shortest novel Dickens wrote but it’s still densely packed with his trademark characters ...
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Sea Prayer posted on 03 Oct 2018
All wars generate their own body of literature – sometimes elegiac or reflective, sometimes jingoistic or triumphal ...
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The Unpunished Vice: A life of reading posted on 29 Sep 2018
A new book from Edmund White is always a must buy – almost regardless of the subject matter....
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Sweet William posted on 28 Sep 2018
Beryl Bainbridge seems to be a writer’s writer. I say this because so many novelists acknowledge Bainbridge’s influence and her talent but her public profi
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The Dice Man posted on 26 Sep 2018
Luke Rhinehart is the pseudonym of George Cockcroft and his 1971 publication, The Dice Man, is almost the definition of a cult novel.
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Out of Sheer rage posted on 24 Sep 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn concludes that Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage "is really quite brilliant".