Inspiring Older Readers
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Beast posted on 17 Feb 2017
For a slim book of only 160 pages this is a physically and emotionally exhausting read.
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Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud posted on 15 Feb 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads about what it's like sitting for a legend of twentieth century painting
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Pincher Martin posted on 12 Feb 2017
When I'm doing book reviews for use on the Letterpress site I try and make it a rule ...
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The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez posted on 10 Feb 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reads the remarkable story of the great painter Velazquez and the largely unknown printer and bookseller, John Snare.
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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'
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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’
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Reading Turgenev posted on 02 Feb 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, considers two contrasting novellas from William Trevor
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Goat Music posted on 31 Jan 2017
The stories and myths of the Classical World remain an enduring source of inspiration to contemporary authors....
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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 ..
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Memoir posted on 25 Jan 2017
Guest writer and reviewer, Alun Severn, reads John McGahern's beautiful memoir.