Inspiring Older Readers
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Soft City posted on 15 Mar 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, revisits Jonathan Raban's classic mix of sociology and autobiography and finds things to admire despite his reservations.
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The Underground Railroad posted on 12 Mar 2017
There has been a tremendous buzz of excitement generated by Whitehead’s book in recent months.
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The Night Cleaner posted on 10 Mar 2017
The collapse of the banking system in 2008 was an event that has exposed global capitalism for what it really is...
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Night Shift posted on 09 Mar 2017
On a recent trip to Waterstones we were grazing the new children’s book when we came across Debi Gliori’s Night Shift.
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I Bought Andy Warhol posted on 08 Mar 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, takes us into the 'grubby' world of the art dealer.
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The Book posted on 04 Mar 2017
This review is a two for the price of one offer – the first part dealing with the content and the second part highlighting the aesthetics of this book ..
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The Gate & River of Time posted on 03 Mar 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reads two different takes on the horrifying events of the Cambodian civil war of the early 1970s.
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Spike Island posted on 25 Feb 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reads Philip Hoare's history of 'the extraordinary quarter-mile long neo-gothic Royal Victoria Military Hospital'
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Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt and other poems posted on 23 Feb 2017
My time spent in punk music venues in the second half of the 1970s produced a number of moments I'll never forget.
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To Exercise Our Talents : The democratization of writing in Britain posted on 21 Feb 2017
This is one of those very rare things – a book that is both a remarkable piece of literary research and an accessible and enjoyable read.