Inspiring Older Readers
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Play It As It Lays posted on 06 Nov 2017
I was recently driving somewhere and listening to the first album by Lloyd Cole and Commotions which is entitled Rattlesnakes........
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The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter posted on 05 Nov 2017
Carson McCullers first novel, published when she was just twenty three, is a jewel of a book ...
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Jacob’s Room Is Full of Books posted on 02 Nov 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn makes another visit to Susan Hill's library.
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So they call you Pisher posted on 01 Nov 2017
I have always been impressed at the scope of Michael Rosen’s career so far ......
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The Lost Continent posted on 31 Oct 2017
I’m inherently suspicious of ‘funny’ books – they are usually quite the opposite ...
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Prick Up Your Ears posted on 29 Oct 2017
I was recently reading a magazine article about the extraordinary things people do in libraries ...
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Do Not Sell At Any Price posted on 28 Oct 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reviews a book that explores the boundary line between the collector and the hoarder.
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Assorted Bric-a-Brac posted on 27 Oct 2017
This is a recently published collection of fifty poems written between 1984 and 2016 by award winning Kevin Cowdall,
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Journey To the Border posted on 24 Oct 2017
At the age of 29, Upward was a teacher at an independent school in Dulwich and in the same year he also joined the Communist Party
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The Rise of the Novel posted on 21 Oct 2017
I have a very soft spot for Ian Watt’s ground-breaking study in literary criticism.