Inspiring Older Readers
-
The Grass Beneath The Wire posted on 07 Feb 2017
I make a point of trying to collect and read books by authors who come from what we might call in the current jargon 'outsider groups'
-
Dadland posted on 07 Feb 2017
This is the special and very ambitious biography of Tom Carew, who was described by The Times of India as ‘Lawrence of Burma’
-
Reading Turgenev posted on 02 Feb 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, considers two contrasting novellas from William Trevor
-
Goat Music posted on 31 Jan 2017
The stories and myths of the Classical World remain an enduring source of inspiration to contemporary authors....
-
Mockingbird posted on 26 Jan 2017
Published in 1980 and nominated in that year for the Nebula Award, Walter Tevis’s dystopian novel which is set at some undefined time in the future ..
-
Memoir posted on 25 Jan 2017
Guest writer and reviewer, Alun Severn, reads John McGahern's beautiful memoir.
-
A Good Death posted on 23 Jan 2017
I always look forward to the next gripping instalment in this Birmingham based detective series and this was another page turner ...
-
The Woman From Sarajevo by Ivo Andric posted on 20 Jan 2017
Ivo who? That’s certainly what I thought when I came across this book in a charity shop not too long ago.
-
Novel On Yellow Paper posted on 17 Jan 2017
In a rather lazy way I’ve always thought of Stevie Smith as a kind of British Dorothy Parker
-
The Crossing posted on 15 Jan 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn, moves on to read the second part of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy - and he's disappointed.