Inspiring Older Readers
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The Hare With Amber Eyes posted on 20 Jun 2016
Alun Severn has been rereading Edmund de Waal’s remarkable book, The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
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The Spy Who Came In From The Cold posted on 18 Jun 2016
I remember quite clearly the first time I read this book when I was at university in Bangor, North Wales
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But You Did Not Come Back posted on 17 Jun 2016
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, examines a short but compelling Holocaust memoir
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Close The Coalhouse Door posted on 11 Jun 2016
Based on the inspirational writings of Sid Chaplin, this play-script by Alan Plater takes a playful but ultimately thoughtful and even rueful look ..
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Manhattan, When I Was Young posted on 10 Jun 2016
Guest writer, Alun Severn, reviews the compelling second instalment of Mary Cantwell's memoirs
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Child of God posted on 07 Jun 2016
Who is the greatest living novelist in the US? I realize that's probably a stupid question...
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Against Nature posted on 05 Jun 2016
A guest review by Alun Severn examining the classic of Decadence by J.K. Huysmans
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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.".