Inspiring Older Readers
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The Bookshop posted on 13 Aug 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Fitzgerald's superb second novel and considers the development of her writing career
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The Music Shop posted on 11 Aug 2017
You might be tempted to think that Rachel Joyce’s latest novel owes something or shares similar territory to that explored in Nick Hornby’s ...
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The Bull From The Sea posted on 10 Aug 2017
I think it’s important to tell you about my reading failures as well as about the books that surprise and delight me.
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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....