Inspiring Older Readers
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Warwick Books, Warwick posted on 28 Jan 2017
We haven’t visited Warwick Books since it changed hands a while ago.
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Mockingbird posted on 26 Jan 2017
Published in 1980 and nominated in that year for the Nebula Award, Walter Tevis’s dystopian novel which is set at some undefined time in the future ..
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Memoir posted on 25 Jan 2017
Guest writer and reviewer, Alun Severn, reads John McGahern's beautiful memoir.
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Spending a penny posted on 25 Jan 2017
I have recently been compiling reading lists for students who will be starting modules I teach in the coming semester.
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A Good Death posted on 23 Jan 2017
I always look forward to the next gripping instalment in this Birmingham based detective series and this was another page turner ...
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The Woman From Sarajevo by Ivo Andric posted on 20 Jan 2017
Ivo who? That’s certainly what I thought when I came across this book in a charity shop not too long ago.
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Novel On Yellow Paper posted on 17 Jan 2017
In a rather lazy way I’ve always thought of Stevie Smith as a kind of British Dorothy Parker
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Stone Trough Books, York posted on 17 Jan 2017
Located at 51 Walmgate, Stone Trough Books is a little further out of the centre than most of the other York bookshops we’ve reviewed
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The Party posted on 16 Jan 2017
Born in Strasbourg in 1931, Tomi Ungerer might well be best known as a prolific and excellent illustrator of children’s books.
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The Crossing posted on 15 Jan 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn, moves on to read the second part of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy - and he's disappointed.