Inspiring Older Readers
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Red Shelley posted on 11 Oct 2016
Paul Foot died at the comparatively early age of 66 in 2004 ....
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Hitler's Children posted on 07 Oct 2016
Guest reviewer Alun Severn goes in search of some historical background on terrorism and pulls up a dud.......
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Boy In Darkness posted on 05 Oct 2016
Back in the late Sixties when I was still a teenager, I desperately wanted to be associated with the ideas and lifestyle of the counter-cultural....
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The Tooth Fairy posted on 03 Oct 2016
I have to admit that this isn’t the kind of novel I’d normally pick up and certainly not one I’d expect to enjoy.
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Darkness At Noon posted on 29 Sep 2016
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, rereads Arthur Koestler's anti-totalitarian masterpiece.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps posted on 25 Sep 2016
Buchan wrote his first thriller (or ‘shocker’ as he called them) in 1914 in something of a rush before the start of the Great War
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The Man With The Golden Arm posted on 21 Sep 2016
American novelist Nelson Algren is often referred to as the chronicler of underworld urban America..
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The Day the Music Died: A life lived behind the lens posted on 18 Sep 2016
I now realise just how much I took for granted in my late teens.
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The Trap posted on 18 Sep 2016
The Trap by Alan Gibbons I’m guessing that the adjective most likely to be applied to this book is ‘controversial’.
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Off the shelf: a celebration of bookshops in verse posted on 09 Sep 2016
I don’t know about you but I often find it quite difficult to make the transition from finishing one book to starting the next one.