Inspiring Older Readers
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The Jazz Loft Project posted on 20 Sep 2015
I love jazz and I love photography and this book (published in 2009) brings those two passions crashing together.
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Drawn From Paradise posted on 14 Sep 2015
Anyone who knows me will be happy to confirm that I am not by instinct an outdoors sort of person....
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Inferno by William Blake posted on 11 Sep 2015
Blake can be difficult, especially if you have to deal with his own extraordinary mythology. Here though ,,,,
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Pens and Needles posted on 03 Sep 2015
This fantastic book is not only a glorious collection of literary caricatures but, for me, a trip down memory lane.
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Sleeping With Ghosts posted on 05 Aug 2015
Sleeping With Ghosts: A life's work in photography by Don McCullin In my late teens and twenties I was bewitched by photography and the legends of the grea
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Jazz Seen by William Claxton posted on 03 Aug 2015
William Claxton's classic photographs of the US jazz scene of the post-war years are luminescent and evocative. The black and white prints - which glow off
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The Public Library : A Photographic Essay posted on 31 Jul 2015
The Public Library : A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson At a time when the whole public library movement is under unprecedented threat ..
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Beauty Is In The Street : A Visual Record of the May '68 Paris Uprising posted on 31 Jul 2015
Beauty Is In The Street : A Visual Record of the May '68 Paris Uprising I was 15 years old and self-obsessed, politically unaware ...-
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The Art of the Bookstore : The bookstore paintings of Gibbs M. Smith posted on 31 Jul 2015
The Art of the Bookstore : The bookstore paintings of Gibbs M. Smith There are very few things that make me happier than a book about bookshops.
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A Book of Books posted on 31 Jul 2015
A Book of Books by Abelardo Morell This is a beautiful book of luminous black and white photographs that present the book in all it's magnificent forms.