Inspiring Older Readers
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Time of Desecration posted on 25 Sep 2017
I have half a dozen of Moravia’s novels on my bookshelves but I must confess that it’s been the best part of 30 years since I last read one.
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Tobermory posted on 21 Sep 2017
This is the shortest of short stories but one that never fails to give me pleasure.
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The Day of the Locust posted on 20 Sep 2017
History has plenty to tell us about the kind of society we have today and Nathanael West’s icy little satire of Hollywood America...
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New Boy posted on 17 Sep 2017
I have always thought that Othello is a pretty unpleasant play about possessiveness and jealousy...
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A Fire on the Moon posted on 16 Sep 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds that 'a Fire on the Moon is an unforgettable experience'
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Black Swine In The Sewers of Hampstead posted on 14 Sep 2017
Thomas Boyle (not to be confused with the more high profile T.C. Boyle) is an American crime novelist......
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Dotter of her Father’s Eyes posted on 10 Sep 2017
I’m not, by temperament, a reader of graphic novels ...
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The Van posted on 10 Sep 2017
Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy is a rumbustious celebration of working class life in North Dublin at the end of the 1980s ...
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Reunion posted on 08 Sep 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn champions the cause of Fred Uhlman's unjustly neglected novella.
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Nothing But Propaganda posted on 05 Sep 2017
Iris Morleyis now a largely forgotten novelist who published primarily during the years of the Second World War and in the immediate aftermath