Inspiring Older Readers
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Northern ReSisters: Conversations with Radical Women posted on 25 Apr 2016
Guest reviewer, Christina Hyland, takes a look at a book about women from the North of England with politically radical views
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The Informer posted on 22 Apr 2016
Published in 1925 and dealing with Ireland immediately after the declaration of independence, O’Flaherty’s novel is ...
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Eustace Chisholm & The Works posted on 17 Apr 2016
James Purdy (1914 – 2009) is very much a writers writer – or, maybe for some, a fringe cult author.
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The Ampersand posted on 11 Apr 2016
Jack Common has virtually disappeared from public view - a state of affairs that would have dismayed much of the literary establishment
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Out of the Pit posted on 08 Apr 2016
I’m pretty sure that this 1951 novel by John Barclay Pick is currently out of print
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Alma Cogan posted on 05 Apr 2016
Gordon Burn died at the age of 61 in 2009, a victim of bowel cancer. His reputation within parts of the literary and artistic community...
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Kafka Was the Rage posted on 03 Apr 2016
I think I discovered Anatole Broyard’s Kafka Was the Rage as a consequence of reading Philip Roth’s The Human Stain.
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My Salinger Year posted on 03 Apr 2016
I've developed a completely jaundiced and probably largely unfair impression that the world of publishing relies on...
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Rare Books Uncovered : True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places posted on 01 Apr 2016
I suspect that every book collector, whatever it is they collect, dreams of the perfect find
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The Machine Stops posted on 31 Mar 2016
It would be tempting to read this short story ( it's only around 12,000 words long) as in some way prophetic