Inspiring Older Readers
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Neuromancer posted on 17 May 2017
Neuromancer by William Gibson Some books appear with a metaphorical puff of smoke and flash of lightening and go down to history as game-changers.
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Too Much: Art & Society in the Sixties 1960-75 posted on 14 May 2017
Guest reviewer Alun Severn reads volume three of Hewison’s The Arts in Britain Since 1939.
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Prater Violet posted on 14 May 2017
This novella ( it’s only a touch over a hundred pages long) packs a deceptive amount between its covers.
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The Last Poets posted on 09 May 2017
Dutch writer and music journalist Christine Otten is completely in thrall to the legend of The Last Poets...
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Memoirs of Hadrian posted on 07 May 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reviews 'Memoirs of Hadrian' and concludes that it is 'a Proustian triumph of imaginative historical writing'.
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The Slynx posted on 04 May 2017
The Slynx was published in 2003 in the US after its original release in Russia in 2000 and garnered almost universal praise...
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Dear Ijeawele posted on 03 May 2017
This is a little jewel of a book by the very readable award winning Nigerian author,
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Under Siege: Literary Life in London 1939-45 posted on 30 Apr 2017
When this book appeared in 1977 it was pretty much the first dedicated analysis of what it was like trying to be a professional writer...
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The Dancer and the Drum posted on 25 Apr 2017
The first thing to say is that this is a book that is a lovely thing to read because it is printed on a sumptuous creamy paper...
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House of the Rising Sun posted on 23 Apr 2017
Elsewhere on this site I have written about my love of James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux sequence of novels ...