Inspiring Older Readers
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Collected Lyrics 1970 – 2015 posted on 21 Jan 2018
When Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel prize for literature it kick-started a lively debate about whether song lyrics could really be thought of as poetry
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The Cement Garden posted on 18 Jan 2018
Back in 1978 the young Ian McEwan had a couple of slim volumes of short stories to his name and a growing reputation ...
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Oryx and Crake posted on 11 Jan 2018
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, The Snowman, possibly the last human left alive, sleeps in a tree to avoid the attentions....
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The Girl From The Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell posted on 08 Jan 2018
Sonia Brownell became Sonia Orwell just two or three months before the author’s death and until she herself died in 1980 ...
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One Fat Englishman posted on 07 Jan 2018
I’ve read very little Kingsley Amis – I certainly loved Lucky Jim when I first encountered it ...
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The Movie-Goer posted on 06 Jan 2018
The Movie-goer was Walker Percy’s debut novel published in 1961, winning the US National Book Award ....
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William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies posted on 04 Jan 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads John Carey's 'magnificent.. first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate Golding'.
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The New Moon with the Old posted on 02 Jan 2018
Last night I dreamed that a handsome and dignified older man sought me out and pressed a secret message into my hand
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The Bookman’s Wake posted on 29 Dec 2017
In the luxurious position of having Christmas Day and Boxing Day stretching out in front of me with no commitments ....
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The Unlimited Dream Company posted on 28 Dec 2017
Most critical appraisals of J.G. Ballard’s work tend to see The Unlimited Dream Company as something of an outlier in his oeuvre.