Inspiring Older Readers
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With Chatwin posted on 31 Jul 2016
I always think I should like biographies more than I do.
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Bonjour Tristesse posted on 29 Jul 2016
Bonjour Tristesse - which translates as 'Hello Sadness' - is one of those books that has sat unread in my book collection for forty years.
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The Train In The Night posted on 28 Jul 2016
What must it be like to suddenly go completely deaf in one ear?
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Sons and Lovers posted on 24 Jul 2016
Guest reviewer Alun Severn, never a great Lawrence fan, takes another look at one of his classic novels.
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The Other posted on 21 Jul 2016
For many people Ryszard Kapuscinski, the Polish journalist, poet, photographer and traveller, who died in 2007, was the ultimate foreign correspondent
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Last Exit To Brooklyn posted on 20 Jul 2016
I guess that the old adage, ‘there’s no such thing as bad publicity’, could also apply to books that get banned
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Now and Then posted on 19 Jul 2016
Unbelievably, it’s been a little over five years since the untimely death of musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron.
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Imagining Alexandria: Poems in Memory of Constantinos Cavafis posted on 18 Jul 2016
A guest review from the poet Jonathan Taylor. The author has given permission for the publishing of this article that first appeared in Iota Magazine.
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The Little World of Don Camillo posted on 15 Jul 2016
Not too long ago I found myself puzzling over what had made Italians turn to fascism during the years before the outbreak of World War Two.
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American Gods posted on 12 Jul 2016
Published in 2001 and quite early in his novel-writing career, American Gods, remains one of Gaiman’s most ambitious books