Inspiring Older Readers
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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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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
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The Lie Tree posted on 15 Mar 2016
I usually try to avoid looking at reviews before writing my own but must confess...
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Living, loving and crying with Jude the Obscure posted on 12 Mar 2016
This is the second instalment of a series of pieces reflecting on books that changed my life
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Updike’s short stories posted on 10 Mar 2016
By the time he died, aged 76, in January 2009, John Updike’s position in the pantheon of great American writers was not unchallenged