Inspiring Older Readers
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Caledonia Books of Glasgow posted on 22 Aug 2016
Although second hand bookshops are hard to find in the centre of Glasgow if you head out west towards the university in the Kelvinbridge..
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Edinburgh International Book Festival 2016 posted on 22 Aug 2016
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2016 This year we paid our first visit to the Edinburgh International Book Festival ( 13th -29th August 2016 ).
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Banner Bright : an illustrated history of trade union banners posted on 21 Aug 2016
Has the British labour movement produced anything more wonderful than the trade union or campaign banner?
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What Good Books Do posted on 21 Aug 2016
A guest post from Chitra Soundar that first appeared on her website in 2015
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Cooper Hay Rare Books, Glasgow posted on 21 Aug 2016
With the exception of a smallish Oxfam bookshop, Cooper Hay Rare Books in Bath Street would seem to be the only ...
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Faceless Killers posted on 21 Aug 2016
I am a big fan of detective novels including some that are often described as 'Scandinavian noir '.
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Among The Bohemians: Experiments in living 1900 - 1939 posted on 20 Aug 2016
This must be one of the most disappointing books I’ve read for some time.
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Ragged Banners posted on 18 Aug 2016
This novel was published in 1931 and could only really have been written in the friable atmosphere of those inter-war years.
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What makes a good author interview? posted on 18 Aug 2016
I’ve just come back from Edinburgh where I was privileged to be at one of the literature festival’s first author interviews
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I went to the corner shop for some butter posted on 15 Aug 2016
Novelist, Alan Gibbons, discovers that sometimes it's just the little things that can drive you to distraction