Inspiring Older Readers
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Celebrating Roald Dahls 100th birthday posted on 16 Oct 2016
I was invited to contribute to the Roald Dahl Centenary celebrations at St Richards Hospice in Worcester ...
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Westbourne Bookshop, Bournemouth posted on 15 Oct 2016
Even though I had only seen a picture on the internet, I must confess that this is a bookshop that I coveted ...
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Just who was John Oliver Killens? posted on 13 Oct 2016
When I’m out and about book hunting I have a couple of categories of novels that I always keep an eye open for ...
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Red Shelley posted on 11 Oct 2016
Paul Foot died at the comparatively early age of 66 in 2004 ....
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At the Cheltenham Literary Festival : The first weekend 7 – 9th October 2016 posted on 10 Oct 2016
At the Cheltenham Literary Festival : The first weekend 7 – 9th October 2016
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For Beginners : the best of graphic non-fiction posted on 08 Oct 2016
Over the past decade graphic novels and even some comics previously discounted or ignored ....
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Hopes by Karen Powell posted on 08 Oct 2016
Karen Powell lives in Leicester (U.K.), and has an MA in Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
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Hitler's Children posted on 07 Oct 2016
Guest reviewer Alun Severn goes in search of some historical background on terrorism and pulls up a dud.......
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Boy In Darkness posted on 05 Oct 2016
Back in the late Sixties when I was still a teenager, I desperately wanted to be associated with the ideas and lifestyle of the counter-cultural....
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The Tooth Fairy posted on 03 Oct 2016
I have to admit that this isn’t the kind of novel I’d normally pick up and certainly not one I’d expect to enjoy.