Inspiring Older Readers
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Oh no! It’s nearly the season of the ‘funny book’… posted on 10 Nov 2015
Oh no! It’s nearly the season of the ‘funny book’… I’ll be straight with you – I’m not a fan of Christmas.
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Foyles in Birmingham Grand Central posted on 10 Nov 2015
I finally got to see the newly re-designed New Street Station in Birmingham and pretty impressive it is too.
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Mr Norris Changes Trains posted on 08 Nov 2015
Published in 1935, Mr Norris Changes Trains, is the first part of what would become the Berlin Stories
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Jane Eyre & Wuthering Heights posted on 08 Nov 2015
These two volumes were published in 1945 by the New York publisher, Random House.
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Cornell's Books, Tewkesbury posted on 06 Nov 2015
Cornell's Books, Tewkesbury This is a second hand bookshop in a really lovely old, half-timbered building that's full of character. Access to the shop is d
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Alison's Bookshop, Tewksbury posted on 03 Nov 2015
This is an immaculately kept independent book shop
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New and Used posted on 01 Nov 2015
I just love eccentric books like this one.
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The Pearl posted on 31 Oct 2015
Steinbeck’s novella reworks and fleshes-out a Mexican folk tale about what happens when a poor fisherman and his family find....
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Slade House posted on 30 Oct 2015
When I started reading Mitchell’s latest, shortish, novel I thought I was going to get an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek chiller....
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Rabbit, Run posted on 30 Oct 2015
I think it must be the best part of forty years since I read Updike’s breakthrough novel, Rabbit, Run.