Inspiring Older Readers
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A Whiff of Burnt Boats posted on 06 Aug 2015
I’d be willing to bet that not too many people outside of a small group of children’s literature aficionados
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Sleeping With Ghosts posted on 05 Aug 2015
Sleeping With Ghosts: A life's work in photography by Don McCullin In my late teens and twenties I was bewitched by photography and the legends of the grea
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The Sound of One Hand Clapping posted on 04 Aug 2015
The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan This is a big-hearted novel, packed full of good intentions.
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George Bayntun Books posted on 03 Aug 2015
You could be forgiven for thinking that George Bayntun Books in Bath is a bit of a forbidding or exclusive place. It has a remarkable frontage - a lovely p
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Jazz Seen by William Claxton posted on 03 Aug 2015
William Claxton's classic photographs of the US jazz scene of the post-war years are luminescent and evocative. The black and white prints - which glow off
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Crystal Spirit posted on 02 Aug 2015
Crystal Spirit by Roger Granelli It’s not really surprising to find that a novel about International Brigade volunteers in the Spanish Civil War is...
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Peter Lyons, Cheltenham posted on 01 Aug 2015
Peter Lyons Bookshop, Cheltenham This is pretty much our favourite second-hand bookshop - if we could choose, this would be the one we'd want to have for o
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The Public Library : A Photographic Essay posted on 31 Jul 2015
The Public Library : A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson At a time when the whole public library movement is under unprecedented threat ..
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Beauty Is In The Street : A Visual Record of the May '68 Paris Uprising posted on 31 Jul 2015
Beauty Is In The Street : A Visual Record of the May '68 Paris Uprising I was 15 years old and self-obsessed, politically unaware ...-
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A Book of Books posted on 31 Jul 2015
A Book of Books by Abelardo Morell This is a beautiful book of luminous black and white photographs that present the book in all it's magnificent forms.