Inspiring Older Readers
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Sexing the Cherry posted on 10 Jan 2024
I have a vivid memory of buying this novel from Waterstones in Birmingham when it was first released in 1989...
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Running aground with The Essex Serpent posted on 04 Jan 2024
If, like me, you are a ‘chain-reader' moving seamlessly from book at book, you’ll be aware of the distress that comes with the failure to find the ‘right’
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Reflections from a Bookshop Window posted on 03 Jan 2024
Published in 1994, Clive Linklater’s Reflections from a Bookshop Window feels like the precursor of what has become a somewhat cliched format ..
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The Woman in Black posted on 01 Jan 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn returns to discover Susan Hill's classic ghost story is a Christmas cracker
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The Deductions of Col. Gore posted on 20 Dec 2023
As I noted in my previously published review of his novel, Nightmare, Lynn Brock was the pseudonym of Irish playwright, Alexander Patrick McAllister.
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Scablands and Other Stories posted on 17 Dec 2023
Here at the Letterpress Project we’ve been fortunate enough to have a long-standing connection with the talented author, Jonathan Taylor.
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The Painter of Battles posted on 13 Dec 2023
Award-winning Spanish author, Arturo Pérez-Reverte is probably best known in the UK for The Dumas Club
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Doppelganger: A trip into the mirror world posted on 10 Dec 2023
Naomi Klein’s incisive political polemics have been a must-read for me ever since I picked up No Logo....
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Rereading Doris Lessing’s Collected African Stories posted on 06 Dec 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reinvestigates the African sort stories of Doris Lessing and admires 'her crystalline prose'.
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An Awfully Big Adventure posted on 03 Dec 2023
Famously nominated for the Booker Prize five times but never coming out the winner....