Inspiring Older Readers
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The Day of the Sardine posted on 03 Jun 2016
Sid Chaplin (1916 – 1986) is a real working class son of the North East and was a pioneer of what is sometimes called proletarian literature
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Play Dead posted on 30 May 2016
A guest post by Newman University student, Aaminah Rauf
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Utz posted on 29 May 2016
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, introduces us to Bruce Chatwin's " tiny, fiercely imagined tragic masterpiece.".
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A Garden Of Sand posted on 26 May 2016
Thompson died young of heart disease in 1978 – he was only 47 years old – just as his reputation as a writer was becoming established.
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Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet posted on 25 May 2016
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, enjoys a book about the Takacs String Quartet and its interpretation of Beethoven's music
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High Fidelity posted on 21 May 2016
Hornby’s book was first published in 1995 and there were plenty of lazy critics at the time who said its popularity was down to the fact that it...
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Fabian posted on 16 May 2016
I suspect that Erich Kästner is best known in the UK as the author of the children’s classic Emile and the Detectives
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man posted on 12 May 2016
A guest review from Alun Severn in which he reassesses Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - and finds he has some issues with it.
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The Dumas Club posted on 08 May 2016
I wonder how many people who are familiar with the Johnny Depp / Roman Polanski movie collaboration called The Ninth Gate...
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Stuart: A life backwards posted on 04 May 2016
I first read Stuart : A Life Backwards in 2005 when it was first published and it has stuck with me ever since.