Inspiring Older Readers
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The Rose Garden posted on 29 Jan 2016
I bought this book of short stories last summer in Charlotte, USA, where the works of Maeve Brennan seem to be considerably more popular
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On The Beach posted on 25 Jan 2016
Somehow I’ve grown up thinking of Nevil Shute as a plodding second division author.
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The English Ghost: spectres through time posted on 21 Jan 2016
I have to admit that I was prompted to read this book by David Bowie. Well, actually more by some of Bowie’s obituaries...
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The Miniaturist posted on 20 Jan 2016
Even now, the city of Amsterdam is an enchanting mixture of orderliness and unorthodoxy...
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Phantoms On The Bookshelves posted on 17 Jan 2016
Bonnet is a French publisher and writer but he is also a self-confessed bibliophile,
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The Waterworks posted on 13 Jan 2016
When E. L. Doctorow died in the summer of 2015 it was a sad loss that went largely unnoticed in the wider news media.
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The Girl On The Train posted on 10 Jan 2016
“Hang on a minute”, I thought as I started reading this recent and highly acclaimed psychological thriller by Paula Hawkins, “surely this is...
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A Place Called Winter posted on 08 Jan 2016
Warning: it’s really difficult to review this book without detail that some people might construe as a ‘spoiler’.
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A Clergyman's Daughter posted on 05 Jan 2016
Quite a lot of critics are pretty sniffy about Orwell’s skills as a novelist. I can understand why...
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Books posted on 01 Jan 2016
I suspect that most people will only know Larry McMurtry as a novelist and screen-writer. His early novel, Horseman, Pass By,