Inspiring Older Readers
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Kellow Books, Chipping Norton posted on 15 Oct 2015
Not having a shop front must limit the amount of casual footfall this interesting little shop gets.
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Oxfam Books, Chipping Norton posted on 15 Oct 2015
Oxfam Bookshops tend to be a pretty uniform experience. There is a corporate image that seems to dominate the character ....
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Rossiter Books : Ross-on-Wye posted on 13 Oct 2015
Rossiter Books based in Ross-On-Wye (I understand there is another branch in Monmouth that I haven't been able to get to yet)
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Cheltenham Literary Festival : Where were the black faces? posted on 12 Oct 2015
I have just spent two weekends attending a number of events at the Cheltenham Literature Festival...
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Sentenced to Life posted on 07 Oct 2015
I’ve always struggled with Clive James. To be honest I always found myself irritated by his bluff smugness...
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam posted on 06 Oct 2015
There are literally hundreds of editions of The Rubaiyat but this one, published by Siegle, Hill & Co is my favourite.
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What does war do to photographers? posted on 05 Oct 2015
What does war do to photographers? At this year’s Cheltenham Literature Festival I had the great good fortune to spend some time listening to Don McCullin
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Purity posted on 04 Oct 2015
I have to admit it - I failed. 200 and something pages into this 560 slab I just had to give up..........
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Dazzling Stranger : Bert Jansch and the British folk and blues revival posted on 01 Oct 2015
There’s something genuinely affecting about witnessing the passing of the generation of musicians I grew up listening to
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Jaffe & Neale, Chipping Norton posted on 30 Sep 2015
It's a fair distance from where I live to Chipping Norton and it's a journey into the backyard of the likes of Jeremy Clarkson...