Inspiring Older Readers
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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.
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The Red Hourglass posted on 04 May 2016
A guest review from Alun Severn that takes a look at a book that redefines the phrase 'red in tooth and claw'
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Love Lies Bleeding posted on 01 May 2016
When I first encountered the novels of Edmund Crispin I just couldn't get enough of them.
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Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape posted on 28 Apr 2016
Occasionally there are books which you feel obliged to read for professional reasons but which break the bounds of the mundane
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The Secret Scripture posted on 26 Apr 2016
I belong to a book club where members choose a book that they like for us all to read and discuss.