Inspiring Older Readers
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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,
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Walking Away posted on 28 Dec 2015
We saw Armitage talking about and reading extracts from this book at a Ledbury Poetry festival event earlier this year...
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The Wonder Boys posted on 28 Dec 2015
This is an out-of-control, bob-sleigh ride of a book that’s a blast from beginning to end.
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My Family and Other Animals posted on 27 Dec 2015
When I was about 15, I was given a copy of The Harrap Book of Humorous Prose ...
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The Tender Hours of Twilight posted on 24 Dec 2015
Richard Seaver is a legend in the publishing and book editing world.
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Bedsit Disco Queen posted on 21 Dec 2015
The emergence of punk in 1976 changed the world for lots of unlikely people.
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1966 posted on 20 Dec 2015
Jon Savage’s mighty new book, 1966, confirms him as one of the premier documenters and analysts of twentieth century popular culture.