Inspiring Older Readers
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Troutmark Books, Cardiff posted on 06 Apr 2016
It's been the best part of 40 years since I last visited Cardiff and so it felt like visiting a city I'd never actually been to before.
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Alma Cogan posted on 05 Apr 2016
Gordon Burn died at the age of 61 in 2009, a victim of bowel cancer. His reputation within parts of the literary and artistic community...
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Kafka Was the Rage posted on 03 Apr 2016
I think I discovered Anatole Broyard’s Kafka Was the Rage as a consequence of reading Philip Roth’s The Human Stain.
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My Salinger Year posted on 03 Apr 2016
I've developed a completely jaundiced and probably largely unfair impression that the world of publishing relies on...
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Animal Farm posted on 02 Apr 2016
Here's a a question for you: if you could bring together an author and illustrator who never met but are a perfect fit, who would you choose?
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Rare Books Uncovered : True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places posted on 01 Apr 2016
I suspect that every book collector, whatever it is they collect, dreams of the perfect find
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The Machine Stops posted on 31 Mar 2016
It would be tempting to read this short story ( it's only around 12,000 words long) as in some way prophetic
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Griffin Books, Penarth posted on 31 Mar 2016
On a recent trip to Cardiff we took the local train out to the affluent seaside suburb of Penarth - and what a delightful little place it is too.
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An Answer For The Waffle Waitress posted on 28 Mar 2016
The peerless American stand-up comedian Bill Hicks used to perform a routine in which he reports an encounter with a waitress
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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