Inspiring Older Readers
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Coprophilia or A Peck of Dirt posted on 26 Mar 2016
Spend an evening watching commercial television and the advertisements will most certainly convince you that we are in a war
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The Year of the Runaways posted on 25 Mar 2016
Towards the end of this beautifully written but sometimes harrowing story, Narinder who is the main female character reflects, 'Who would be a man'?
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The Library At Night posted on 24 Mar 2016
Every discipline needs it’s public intellectual – someone to articulate their cause and to make the difficult simple
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The Outsider posted on 21 Mar 2016
Colin Wilson died at the age of 82 in 2013 and although he went to his grave believing that he was "the major literary genius of our century"
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The Shakespeare Hospice Bookshop, Stratford-Upon-Avon posted on 20 Mar 2016
Located in Rother Street in Stratford, just beyond the outdoor market area, this is one of the bigger charity bookshops
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Letterpress@ St. Richard's Day Hospice, Worcester posted on 18 Mar 2016
Project Director, Karen Argent spent a very enjoyable morning at the impressive St Richard’s Day Hospice
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Wildwood posted on 18 Mar 2016
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reads Roger Deakin’s superlative Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees,
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Milton’s Paradise Lost illustrated by Gustave Doré posted on 18 Mar 2016
Gustave Doré, who died in 1883, was an artist and illustrator whose style is immediately recognisable.
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Pope and Dryden – don’t mess with the Mafia posted on 17 Mar 2016
In 1973 I was just entering my second year as an English Literature undergraduate at Bangor University
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth posted on 16 Mar 2016
In Germany, Professor Lidenbrock has developed an obsession – he wants to follow in the footsteps of the Icelander, Arne Saknussenum