Inspiring Older Readers
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The Magician posted on 22 Oct 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads The Magician by Colm Tóibín and finds it is long, intense, intellectually complex and grand in its ambitions.
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Constellation of Genius posted on 19 Oct 2023
I'm temperamentally disinclined to believe that epoch-making changes in history or culture...
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American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton posted on 17 Oct 2023
I imagine that the name of Edith Hamilton (1867 – 1963) will be a new one for very many British readers
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The Painted Veil posted on 15 Oct 2023
A good friend of the Letterpress Project has said to me that the short stories of Somerset Maugham are underrated and deserve to be more widely read.
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Rereading The Bog People by P. V. Glob posted on 12 Oct 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reassesses the literary impact of P. V. Glob’s book, The Bog People, first published in English translation by Faber in 1969
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The Secret Library posted on 09 Oct 2023
The sub-title of this book will probably give you an instant sense of what you’re going to encounter in the 250 pages
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Lolly Willowes posted on 04 Oct 2023
Sylvia Townsend Warner is the perfect example of the way so many women novelists were almost airbrushed out of literary history
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Alex Rider: Nightshade Revenge posted on 02 Oct 2023
Fans, young and old, of the schoolboy MI6 agent, Alex Rider will be thrilled to have him back for what is now the fourteenth book in the series.
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That They May Face the Rising Sun posted on 27 Sep 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds That They May Face the Rising Sun has a ‘radical ordinariness’ in which moments of great epiphany exist in the everyday
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Weekend in Dinlock posted on 25 Sep 2023
Chicago-born Clancy Sigal (1926 – 2017) was an interesting and now, I think, largely forgotten novelist, journalist and radical political activist.