Inspiring Older Readers
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Three Men in a Boat posted on 12 Jan 2023
Jerome’s 1889 classic, Three Men in a Boat started life as a genuine attempt to write a travel guide tracing a journey from London
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The Horse + Bamboo Poster Book posted on 09 Jan 2023
When I’m out and about scouring the charity and junk shops for books, one of the things I enjoy most is stumbling across a publication
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Agatha Christie Cover Story posted on 13 Nov 2022
If you are a fan of the detective stories of Agatha Christie and you’ve owned a paperback of her work published before or just after 1980 by Fontana...
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Art Matters posted on 26 Sep 2022
For a cohort of teenagers and those in their early twenties, Neil Gaiman is something of a guru ...
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Quentin Blake: A Year of Drawings posted on 19 Sep 2022
At the time of peak lockdown in 2020 being effectively under Covid house-arrest, people found themselves doing uncharacteristically obsessive things
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Nosing around other people’s bookshelves posted on 05 Sep 2022
If you are foolish enough to invite me into your house be prepared for me to make a beeline for your bookshelves,
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Vintage Everyman Paperbacks posted on 01 Sep 2022
The Everyman library of book titles must be one of the better known book imprints ...
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Gothic posted on 21 Jul 2022
This overview of all things Gothic by Richard Davenport-Hines starts from quite a simple proposition ...
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Something Wicked from Japan posted on 02 Jun 2022
This extraordinary book, in both English and Japanese, is a superb introduction to ‘Ghosts, demons & Yokai in Ukiyo-e Masterpieces’ as the subtitle
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Birmingham #2 1970s & 80s posted on 05 May 2022
This second instalment of Brian Homer’s Photozine series sees the photographer and designer continue to open his extensive archive of images