Inspiring Older Readers
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Citizen: An American Lyric posted on 13 Feb 2024
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine The fact that this book is subtitled An American Lyric and has been nominated for awards in the category...
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Old & Rare posted on 11 Feb 2024
Book collectors are a strange bunch.
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A Time of Gifts posted on 07 Feb 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn rereads (for the umpteenth time) Patrick Leigh Fermor's journey on foot from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople
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The Wife of Bath posted on 04 Feb 2024
Originally published in 2023 but now available from Princeton University Press in paperback...
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Spies posted on 31 Jan 2024
Michael Frayn, now at the grand old age of 90, is probably best known as a playwright – Noises Off, Democracy, Copenhagen ....
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The House of Doors posted on 28 Jan 2024
This is a novel that is complex, literary, multi-layered and magnetically readable.
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The Midnight Washerwoman and other tales of Lower Brittany posted on 24 Jan 2024
For most us, stories come in formats that allow us to constantly revisit them in the medium in which they were originally created.
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Le Grande Meaulnes posted on 17 Jan 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds that Le Grand Meaulnes may be flawed but the mounting sense of tragic loss that pervades it is beautifully realised.
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The Stepford Wives posted on 14 Jan 2024
It’s a tribute to both Ira Levin’s novel and to the ubiquitous popularity of the 1975 movie adaptation directed by Brian Forbes...
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Sexing the Cherry posted on 10 Jan 2024
I have a vivid memory of buying this novel from Waterstones in Birmingham when it was first released in 1989...