Inspiring Older Readers
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Ladies May Now Leave Their Machine posted on 08 Aug 2017
Although Diana Murray Hill is careful to say in her short preface that this is a work of fiction....
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Direct Red posted on 05 Aug 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn puts on his scrubs, washes his hands and dips into Gabriel Weston's memoir of life as a surgeon.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray posted on 04 Aug 2017
I have always felt that one of the best things about Wilde’s only novel was the intemperate, frothing outrage it caused among contemporary book reviewers
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S is for Space posted on 01 Aug 2017
Ray Bradbury who died at the ripe old age of 91 in 2012 was American literary aristocracy.
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One For The Books posted on 29 Jul 2017
I remember reading and thoroughly enjoying Joe Queenan's newspaper columns back when big Sunday broadsheet newspapers seemed the height of sophistication.
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Larry McMurtry: ‘book rancher’ posted on 27 Jul 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Larry McMurtry's autobiographical reflections on his life in books.
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On Boxing posted on 21 Jul 2017
Even after reading Joyce Carol Oates’ book on what she sees as the ‘art’ of boxing, , I remain fundamentally puzzled....
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The Shining posted on 16 Jul 2017
This is the first Stephen King novel I’ve ever read.
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Refugee Tales II posted on 15 Jul 2017
This is the second volume of stories told by asylum seekers to poets and novelists , a format that is inspired by The Canterbury Tales.
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The Lost World of British Communism posted on 15 Jul 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads a political memoir that takes a rueful look back at the high-tide of British Communism.