Inspiring Older Readers
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Whatever happened to the books in Barnes & Noble? posted on 30 Oct 2022
Here at the Letterpress Project we’ve been looking forward to a long-delayed trip to meet-up with friends in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning posted on 26 Oct 2022
As a new English Literature undergraduate in the early 1970s, I have a vivid memory ....
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader posted on 23 Oct 2022
The eighteen short essays that make up this collection are not just entertaining diversions for bibliophiles but something closer to a confessional by the
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Rum Punch posted on 06 Oct 2022
Elmore Leonard’s 30th novel, Rum Punch is the source for what might be, for a good number of people, a much more familiar confection - Quentin Tarantino’s
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Billy Liar posted on 03 Oct 2022
Keith Waterhouse (1929 - 2009) was, in many ways, the archetypal tabloid journalist from the heady days of Fleet Street in the 60s & 70s
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs posted on 29 Sep 2022
I have often thought that, living here in the UK, I have been part of a lucky generation that has never directly experienced war on our soil
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Art Matters posted on 26 Sep 2022
For a cohort of teenagers and those in their early twenties, Neil Gaiman is something of a guru ...
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer posted on 22 Sep 2022
From the date of its publication in 1985, Patrick Süskind’s Perfume has divided opinion.
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Quentin Blake: A Year of Drawings posted on 19 Sep 2022
At the time of peak lockdown in 2020 being effectively under Covid house-arrest, people found themselves doing uncharacteristically obsessive things
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Flying Snakes & Griffin Claws: and Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities posted on 15 Sep 2022
Stanford University research scholar, Adrienne Mayor is a renowned historian and classical folklore academic ....