Inspiring Older Readers
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A Good Death posted on 23 Jan 2017
I always look forward to the next gripping instalment in this Birmingham based detective series and this was another page turner ...
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The Woman From Sarajevo by Ivo Andric posted on 20 Jan 2017
Ivo who? That’s certainly what I thought when I came across this book in a charity shop not too long ago.
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Novel On Yellow Paper posted on 17 Jan 2017
In a rather lazy way I’ve always thought of Stevie Smith as a kind of British Dorothy Parker
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The Crossing posted on 15 Jan 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn, moves on to read the second part of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy - and he's disappointed.
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A.E. Coppard Selected Stories posted on 13 Jan 2017
I have never been a huge fan of the short story form.
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Hide & Seek posted on 07 Jan 2017
Go into any bookshop and you’ll almost certainly find that they have a section of the shelving dedicated to ‘crime’
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All The Pretty Horses posted on 05 Jan 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn considers what is possibly the finest novel by one of America's greatest living authors.
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Titus Groan posted on 01 Jan 2017
Writing in an article carried by The Guardian newspaper in 2014, novelist Marcus Sedgwick waxed lyrical about his love for Mervyn Peake
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Whit posted on 28 Dec 2016
Prior to his untimely death from an aggressive cancer in 2013, I would make a point of trying to read any new releases by Iain Banks ..
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Orwell's Nose posted on 25 Dec 2016
The writing of George Orwell has been a constant in my life for as long as I’ve been a serious reader...