Inspiring Older Readers
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The Wood Engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton posted on 09 Dec 2015
Is there anything better than discovering a writer or artist that you had previously never come across.........
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The Maltese Falcon posted on 08 Dec 2015
In truth I’m not much of a fan of detective or crime fiction. What I do read tends to be American...
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Oxfam Book Shop, St. Giles, Oxford posted on 08 Dec 2015
This shop feels like a place we've been visiting for ages now. Discovering Oxford for the first time many years ago...
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I'm sorry but I really don't do bird books....................or do I? posted on 06 Dec 2015
We recently visited some long-standing friends of ours who are very keen on ornithology -
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Put Out More Flags posted on 02 Dec 2015
I have to put my cards on the table - I really disliked this book and didn't finish it.
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Cults of Unreason posted on 01 Dec 2015
There are some books I return to on a regular basis and which I don’t feel I have to read from cover to cover.
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Oxfam Book Shop, Knowle posted on 30 Nov 2015
On our occasional visits to Solihull in the West Midlands we usually make a point of swinging off the motorway and into Knowle
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Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading posted on 29 Nov 2015
This is a little marvel of a book: in fact, it’s at least four books in one.
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100 Years of Sheaffer posted on 29 Nov 2015
Let me start with an apology. This book is essentially a very beautiful and sumptuous piece of advertising.
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Estates posted on 27 Nov 2015
Estates: An Intimate History by Lynsey Hanley I first read Lynsey Hanley’s memoir / political polemic when it was first published in 2007 ..