Inspiring Older Readers
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Woodbrook posted on 09 Jun 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads the 'extraordinary memoir' of David Thomson, a sensitive and troubled man.
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine posted on 07 Jun 2017
In some ways the 2008 crisis of capitalism that came so perilously close to destroying the World financial system seems to be oddly old news these days.
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The Refugees posted on 05 Jun 2017
I understand that the short story form is notoriously difficult for authors to do well ...
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Ashes In My Mouth, Sand In My Shoes posted on 04 Jun 2017
Norwegian novelist, Per Petterson’s breakthrough novel was the 2005 Out Stealing Horses...
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The Secret History posted on 02 Jun 2017
First published in 1992, The Secret History, Tartt’s first novel was a smash hit from the outset.
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Fools of Fortune posted on 02 Jun 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn is impressed by William Trevor's special brand of Irish Realism
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The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes posted on 31 May 2017
This is an extraordinary book in many ways.
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Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project posted on 29 May 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Iain Sinclair's book that focuses on "the craven greed and vanity of ‘grand projects’ "
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Hurry On Down posted on 27 May 2017
You’ve got to feel sorry for poor old John Wain. His reputation as a writer has metaphorically slipped down the back of the literary sofa..
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Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me posted on 22 May 2017
This is one of those unexpected week-end reads – a book I’d never heard of before that I picked up on a whim ...