Inspiring Older Readers
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Diary of a Bookseller posted on 09 Oct 2017
Anyone who has ever worked in a book shop – second hand or not – will know that there is endless entertainment to be had ...
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Penguin by Illustrators posted on 08 Oct 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn revels in a book singing the praises of some Penguin paperback illustrators
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Winds of October posted on 06 Oct 2017
Given that this year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the start of the 1917 Russian Revolution, it’s probably not too surprising ....
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The Big University Book Bonanza : giving old books new readers posted on 05 Oct 2017
The Letterpress Project has a long standing partnership with Newman University in Birmingham
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Evergreen Livres, Stow-on-the-Wold posted on 05 Oct 2017
There was a time not too long ago when a trip to Stow-on-the-Wold meant that you could spend a very pleasant Saturday ...
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The Unsung Sixties: Memoirs of Social Innovation posted on 04 Oct 2017
I think that when people wax lyrical about the exciting, innovative 1960s they tend to use it as a kind of shorthand
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Enigma posted on 02 Oct 2017
Regular guest reviewer, Alun Severn takes a look at a book he thinks sits alongside the best of Le Carre, Greene or Ambler.
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Wild Things posted on 01 Oct 2017
I really wanted to love this book – especially in light of a whole series of very positive reviews it received on publication.
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The Bookshop Strikes Back posted on 01 Oct 2017
You can be forgiven if, like me, this pocket-size booklet published in 2013 passed you by.
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C.R.W. Nevinson: This Cult of Violence posted on 30 Sep 2017
Christopher (usually known by the initials C.R.W.) Nevinson (1889 – 1946) was one of the best regarded but most controversial British artists