Inspiring Older Readers
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The Naked Civil Servant posted on 06 May 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Quentin Crisp's controversial autobiography and finds it still challenges conventional attitudes
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Baby Lies posted on 05 May 2018
This is the fourth book in the successful Detective Tom Mariner series, a couple of which we have already reviewed ...
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The Nature of Passion posted on 04 May 2018
Jhabvala is probably best known for her Booker prize-winning novel, Heat and Dust, which explores the parallels between modern and colonial India...
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Rosie: Scenes from a vanished life posted on 02 May 2018
I have just finished reading ‘Rosie: scenes from a vanished life’ and so I was very pleased to be able to hear Rose Tremain talk about her autobiography
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The Story of My Typewriter posted on 29 Apr 2018
As I start this review I have the feeling that you’re going to struggle to understand why I find this little book so compelling and irresistible
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Coal Black Mornings posted on 26 Apr 2018
Back when the 1980s turned into the 1990s I had become pretty detached from the pop and rock music scene...
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The Green Road posted on 22 Apr 2018
It always helps to have an author’s voice in my head when I am reading a novel.
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Molly Keane: A Life posted on 21 Apr 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Sally Phipps' memoir of her mother, the redoubtable author and playwright, Molly Keane.
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Ghostly posted on 20 Apr 2018
Anthologies of ghost stories are often formulaic and rather predictable with tales you’ve read a hundred times before. So it’s great...
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The Hate U Give posted on 19 Apr 2018
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas This novel (aimed at young adults but it will appeal to plenty of older readers too) has had a lot of publicity...