Inspiring Older Readers
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Street-Walker posted on 10 Jul 2016
British social attitudes towards prostitution have had one consistent feature – inconsistency.
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Penguin Modern Painters : Edward Burra posted on 09 Jul 2016
When I was younger and most art books were just too expensive for me to afford, the Penguin Modern Painters series was an absolute godsend
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An Interview With Bruce Johns posted on 09 Jul 2016
An Interview With Bruce Johns
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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