Inspiring Older Readers
-
The Illustrated Summoned by Bells posted on 13 Aug 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds The Illustrated Summoned by Bells a perfect bit of summer reading.
-
The Young Ardizzone posted on 16 Jun 2021
I am a great fan of Edward Ardizzone’s artwork and as a book illustrator he’s greatly loved.
-
Daphnis and Chloe posted on 31 May 2021
I’m going to be honest right up front: I’ve never been a great fan ....
-
Book Cover Design posted on 02 May 2021
You’ll find plenty of other articles on this site that trumpet the merits of great book design.
-
Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney & the London Painters posted on 18 Jan 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Martin Gayford's masterly assessment of the London art scene of the 20th century.
-
The Madman’s Library posted on 12 Jan 2021
Brooke-Hitching is a rare book collector and the son of an antiquarian book dealer but he also writes for the television programme, QI ....
-
Inferno by Dante, illustrated by William Blake posted on 03 Jan 2021
I was intrigued the other day to see that the Sky Arts television channel was running a programme entitled ‘Dante’s Creation of Hell’.
-
Bookshop Tours of Britain posted on 22 Dec 2020
My personal fantasy is to organise a tour of the USA, hopping from bookshop to bookshop...
-
Bibliomania posted on 10 Jul 2020
At the end of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th, a strange malady seemed to grip some intellectuals...
-
A Room Full of Toys posted on 31 May 2020
I think if I tried to compile a league table of the downright weirdest books I own......