Inspiring Older Readers
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The Big Sleep posted on 05 Mar 2016
Lean and mean, this is probably my favourite Chandler novel.
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Reconsidering Nabokov’s Lolita posted on 04 Mar 2016
A guest review from Alun Severn who ponders the quality and value of Nabokov's tale of paedophilia
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Bookworm, Tewkesbury posted on 02 Mar 2016
Bookworm on the High Street in Tewkesbury is a charity bookshop but it's a bit different from the usual sort.
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New friendships, frozen playing fields and Under Milk Wood posted on 02 Mar 2016
I was not a sporty boy at school. No, that’s not right – I was not a sport-playing boy at school.
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Football's Comic Book Heroes posted on 01 Mar 2016
It's important to say from the outset that to appreciate this book you don't have to be a fan of football,
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A Pound Of Paper posted on 28 Feb 2016
When this book first came out in 2002 I sat and read it a virtually a single sitting.
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St. Richard's Hospice Book and Media Store, Malvern posted on 28 Feb 2016
It's always great to welcome a new bookshop to any High Street
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The Mersey Sound : Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten posted on 25 Feb 2016
At some point while I was in my fifth ( and, as it turned out, my last) year at secondary school our small, rather haphazard library ordered a run of slim
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The Oxfam Bookshop, Shrewsbury posted on 25 Feb 2016
A fairly run-of-the-mill Oxfam bookshop at 10 Dogpole in the heart of Shrewsbury town,
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Johnny Got His Gun posted on 24 Feb 2016
In an age when superlatives are commonly lavished on the ordinary and mundane it somehow feels niggardly to call this book extraordinary