Inspiring Older Readers
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The Missing of the Somme posted on 19 May 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reviews a short book by 'one of the most deceptively hard-working slackers in literature'
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The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan posted on 17 May 2017
It just goes to show that you never know what you’re going to find when you make a casual visit to a flea market in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Neuromancer posted on 17 May 2017
Neuromancer by William Gibson Some books appear with a metaphorical puff of smoke and flash of lightening and go down to history as game-changers.
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Too Much: Art & Society in the Sixties 1960-75 posted on 14 May 2017
Guest reviewer Alun Severn reads volume three of Hewison’s The Arts in Britain Since 1939.
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Ulysses by James Joyce published by Folio Society Books and illustrated by Palladino posted on 11 May 2017
For many years now I have had a ready answer for that parlour game where you are required to name the single book you’d choose to have with you ..
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The Last Poets posted on 09 May 2017
Dutch writer and music journalist Christine Otten is completely in thrall to the legend of The Last Poets...
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Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson @ Malvern Cube 5th May 2017 posted on 08 May 2017
Getting the current Poet Laureate along to mark the first collaboration between the Malvern Cub and the Malvern Book Co-Operative was quite a coup and this
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Memoirs of Hadrian posted on 07 May 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reviews 'Memoirs of Hadrian' and concludes that it is 'a Proustian triumph of imaginative historical writing'.
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Print them cheap and pile them high posted on 06 May 2017
When I first started buying books...
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Westbourne Bookshop, Bournemouth, Dorset posted on 05 May 2017
The Westbourne area of Bournemouth is a rather lovely part of town with a distinctive atmosphere ...