Inspiring Older Readers
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Kitchen Confidential posted on 10 Dec 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn looks at the book that launched the notion of 'gonzo' cookery..
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Romantic Moderns posted on 08 Dec 2017
In the years between the end of World War One and the start of World War Two a new artistic and cultural sensibility swept across Europe.
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Moments of Being posted on 06 Dec 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Virginia Woolf's short collection of biographical essays that cast a light on the writer's development and state of mind.
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Means-Test Man posted on 05 Dec 2017
Published in 1935, Walter Brierley’s Means-Test Man was, by 1939, considered as essential to understanding the working class experiences
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Why Dylan Matters posted on 03 Dec 2017
When I read several early and extremely positive reviews of the Classics scholar, Richard Thomas’ book about Bob Dylan I was pretty keen to get hold of..
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The Violet Hour posted on 02 Dec 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads a book of essays that illuminate the last days of some great 20th century writers and thinkers
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The Electric Michelangelo posted on 24 Nov 2017
I remember Sarah Hall’s book being published in 2004 to significant acclaim and although I bought a copy I somehow never got around to reading it.
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The Borrower posted on 22 Nov 2017
As I am an avid reader and also a lover of mysteries, this first novel by Rebecca Makkai promised to be right up my street.
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The Harrap Book of Humorous Prose posted on 19 Nov 2017
I suspect that all of us have our bookish equivalents of the famous Proustian Madeleine...
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The Moor posted on 17 Nov 2017
I’m not an outdoors type. I really don’t like walking in nature and I would much rather spend my time in the labyrinths of a city......