Inspiring Older Readers
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The romance of a book signed by the author posted on 20 Dec 2021
Go to any shop or online website that specialises in ‘collectable’ books and you’ll quickly discover....
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A Winter’s Morning posted on 16 Dec 2021
A new poem from Kevin Cowdall
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Rereading WG Sebald’s Austerlitz posted on 14 Dec 2021
On the twentieth anniversary of the death of W.G. Sebald, guest reviewer, Alun Severn, rereads his last book and considers the writer's legacy.
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The Murdstone Trilogy posted on 12 Dec 2021
Mal Peet, who died at the age of 67 in 2015, was much loved and admired by the children’s literature community ...
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Parnassus on Wheels posted on 08 Dec 2021
Parnassus on Wheels (1917) was actually the first novel published by the American writer, Christopher Morley...
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Anthony Blunt: His Lives posted on 05 Dec 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Miranda Carter's meticulously researched biography of the enigma that was Anthony Blunt, art expert and Soviet spy
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A Moveable Feast posted on 01 Dec 2021
Published posthumously in 1964 following the author’s suicide in 1961, A Moveable Feast is a memoire of his early career in Paris
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The Fireside Bookshop, Stroud posted on 28 Nov 2021
The Fireside Bookshop, Stroud
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Trent’s Last Case posted on 25 Nov 2021
Amongst aficionados of crime writing’s Golden Age, Trent’s Last Case by Eric Clerihew Bentley has something of legendary status.
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean posted on 22 Nov 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads a new collection of previously uncollected essays by Joan Didion