Inspiring Older Readers
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Street-Walker posted on 10 Jul 2016
British social attitudes towards prostitution have had one consistent feature – inconsistency.
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1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow posted on 08 Jul 2016
Guest reviewer Alun Severn reviews a book that helps him understand the historical significance of Napoleon
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Eating People Is Wrong posted on 07 Jul 2016
In the late Fifties and early Sixties a generation of writers including Bradbury, Kingsley Amis and John Wain...
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Refugee Tales posted on 04 Jul 2016
The premise of basing this profound book on the structure of an existing classic is a clever one
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Caverns of the Night : coal mines in art, literature and film posted on 02 Jul 2016
I have recently been doing some research into the ways in which predominantly middle-class artists have tended to eroticise working class occupations.
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Butcher's Crossing posted on 29 Jun 2016
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, takes a look at John Williams' sometimes brutal novel of the West and finds echoes of Joseph Conrad.
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The Child That Books Built posted on 29 Jun 2016
Spufford sub-titles his book ‘A memoir of childhood and reading’
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The Book Collector posted on 27 Jun 2016
Alice Thompson has developed a reputation for producing unusual and challenging narratives
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Claudine's House posted on 25 Jun 2016
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, takes a look at a writer at the peak of her powers.
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The Plague (Le Peste) posted on 24 Jun 2016
When the rats start to leave the cellars and sewers and drop dead, the population of Oran in Algeria is puzzled but not unduly upset