Inspiring Older Readers
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Shakespeare’s Tragic Art posted on 04 Nov 2024
Stepping into the already crowded arena of Shakespeare studies must be a daunting task.
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Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales for Children - that aren’t for children posted on 30 Oct 2024
Hillaire Belloc (1870 – 1953) was a French-English dual national who was by turns a writer, politician, critic, soldier and poet.
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The Man Who Wasn’t There posted on 27 Oct 2024
This is a slim, even cryptic novel of life in post-war, black and white Britain. 12 year old Colin has no father......
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Someone Like You posted on 23 Oct 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads 'Someone Like You' by Roald Dahl and discovers that it's a 'good bad book'
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Whisky Galore posted on 21 Oct 2024
1949 was a tremendous year for fans of Ealing Studio movies because it saw the release of three films ...
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Woodcuts posted on 15 Oct 2024
I am particularly fond of woodcuts as a method of illustration – they’re dramatic, often superbly expressive and devilishly difficult to do well.
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The History of Mr Polly posted on 14 Oct 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds that this Edwardian classic novel was his perfect read for the mood he was in.
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England Made Me posted on 09 Oct 2024
This is, I suspect, one of Greene’s lesser known (and less read?) novels – originally published in 1935
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Pope and Dryden – don’t mess with the Mafia posted on 06 Oct 2024
In 1973 I was just entering my second year as an English Literature undergraduate at Bangor University
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The Strange Library posted on 01 Oct 2024
So another year slips past and once again, much to the chagrin and puzzlement of his fans, Haruki Murakami doesn’t get the Nobel prize for literature.