Inspiring Older Readers
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1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow posted on 08 Jul 2016
Guest reviewer Alun Severn reviews a book that helps him understand the historical significance of Napoleon
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Eating People Is Wrong posted on 07 Jul 2016
In the late Fifties and early Sixties a generation of writers including Bradbury, Kingsley Amis and John Wain...
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Two poems from Jonathan Taylor posted on 06 Jul 2016
Jonathan Taylor is an author, critic, editor and lecturer.
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The Archaeology of Working Class Writing : Part Four – Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) posted on 06 Jul 2016
With a pen name like Lewis Grassic Gibbon ( a name derived from his mother’s side of the family) you would be excused for thinking that one of Scotland’s
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McEwan, Faulks and Hussain to star at Cheltenham Literature Festival posted on 05 Jul 2016
See more about the early announcements for the Cheltenham Literature Festival
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Refugee Tales posted on 04 Jul 2016
The premise of basing this profound book on the structure of an existing classic is a clever one
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An Interview With Jonathan Taylor posted on 03 Jul 2016
An interview with Jonathan Taylor
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Caverns of the Night : coal mines in art, literature and film posted on 02 Jul 2016
I have recently been doing some research into the ways in which predominantly middle-class artists have tended to eroticise working class occupations.
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Born To Work posted on 30 Jun 2016
If you want to understand the extent of change in Britain – social, economic and political – that has taken place over the past two or three decades
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Butcher's Crossing posted on 29 Jun 2016
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, takes a look at John Williams' sometimes brutal novel of the West and finds echoes of Joseph Conrad.