Inspiring Older Readers
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The Secret Scripture posted on 26 Apr 2016
I belong to a book club where members choose a book that they like for us all to read and discuss.
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The Ship : the book I couldn't read posted on 26 Apr 2016
In this series of occasional pieces about books that have had an important part in creating my reading identity
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Northern ReSisters: Conversations with Radical Women posted on 25 Apr 2016
Guest reviewer, Christina Hyland, takes a look at a book about women from the North of England with politically radical views
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Paula Rego's Nursery Rhymes posted on 24 Apr 2016
Paula Rego was born in 1938 as a Portuguese citizen but her Anglophile parents sent her to school in the UK during the 1950s
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The Informer posted on 22 Apr 2016
Published in 1925 and dealing with Ireland immediately after the declaration of independence, O’Flaherty’s novel is ...
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Sedgeberrow Books, Pershore posted on 21 Apr 2016
Probably the best way of describing Sedgeberrow Books is to call it a proper, old-fashioned bookshop.
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Ian K. Pugh Books, Pershore posted on 20 Apr 2016
Could this be the most frustrating bookshop in the UK?
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Coach House Books and Artist Materials, Pershore posted on 20 Apr 2016
This is a small(ish) independent bookshop that splits its stock between new release books, greeting cards and art materials.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men posted on 20 Apr 2016
When I started to get interested in photography as a journalistic tool as well as an art form, it wasn’t long before the name of Walker Evans ..
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The archaeology of working class writing : Part Two – Harold Heslop posted on 17 Apr 2016
Researching the issue of working class writers in the first half of the twentieth century seems to always lead back to the issue of adult education