Inspiring Older Readers
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Bibliomaniac posted on 23 Nov 2022
Broadcaster and comedian, Robin Ince shares an obsession with me – books.
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White Eagles Over Serbia posted on 20 Nov 2022
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn discovers that Lawrence Durrell can write an old-fashioned thriller of the kind John Buchan or Geoffrey Household would admire
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Lessons posted on 16 Nov 2022
I’ve been buying and reading the more recent of Ian McEwan’s novels out of a sort of loyalty to an author whose earlier work felt essential and relevant.
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Agatha Christie Cover Story posted on 13 Nov 2022
If you are a fan of the detective stories of Agatha Christie and you’ve owned a paperback of her work published before or just after 1980 by Fontana...
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Blood Meridian posted on 09 Nov 2022
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Cormac McCarthy's shocking novel that he describes as a ‘cowboy novel startlingly reinvented as Jacobean tragedy'
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Free Fall posted on 06 Nov 2022
Published in 1959 and Golding’s fourth novel, Free Fall, takes us into the mind of the spiritually (and physically) tormented artist, Sammy Mountjoy.
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An Interview With Adrienne Mayor posted on 02 Nov 2022
An Interview With Adrienne Mayor
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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