Inspiring Older Readers
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Admissions posted on 24 Aug 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn gets back inside the head of brain-surgeon Henry Marsh as the doctor reflects on life, retirement and death
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Home Fire posted on 22 Aug 2017
Kamila Shamsie is the author of several prizewinning novels, many of which explore aspects of identity, family and the complications of having a dual Briti
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The Feast posted on 21 Aug 2017
I can’t imagine I would ever have stumbled across this book had it not been for a slightly mysterious email ....
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Riceyman Steps posted on 18 Aug 2017
I’ve always thought of Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) as an moderately interesting but essentially second division novelist...
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Writing In An Age of Silence posted on 15 Aug 2017
Like me, you might have thought that US politics had pretty much scraped the bottom of the barrel when it elected George W. Bush.
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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.