Inspiring Older Readers
-
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
-
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.
-
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.
-
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...
-
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......
-
Memoir of a Fascist Childhood posted on 15 Nov 2017
Given my own political leanings, over the years I must have racked-up a good many biographies and auto-biographies ...
-
The Death of the Moth & Other Essays posted on 14 Nov 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn takes an urban stroll in the company of Virginia Woolf
-
Overbooked in Arizona posted on 12 Nov 2017
This is a relatively short cautionary tale about how a passionate interest in books can become a dangerous...
-
The Romantics posted on 11 Nov 2017
Radical historian and activist, E.P. Thompson published a major new work about every ten years or so...
-
Alan Garner’s The Owl Service – at Fifty posted on 10 Nov 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn rereads Alan Garner's classic on the 50th anniversary of its publication