Inspiring Older Readers
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The Morbid Age: Britain between the wars posted on 20 Nov 2020
The twenty years that cover the time between the end of the First World War and the start of the Second has proved to be fruitful territory for historians
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All Souls posted on 18 Nov 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn remains resolutely unimpressed by the talents of Javier Marias and his novel, 'All Souls'.
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The Crow Road posted on 16 Nov 2020
This 500 page whopper of a book is, I suspect, the late Iain Banks’ most popular novel.
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How Many Miles to Babylon? posted on 05 Nov 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Jennifer Johnston's beautifully crafted novel of Anglo-Irish politics filtered through the lens of World War One
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater posted on 02 Nov 2020
Long before Huxley’s Doors of Perception, Hunter Thompson’s self-destructive excesses or the birth of psychedelic rock and pop music...
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It must be out there somewhere....? posted on 29 Oct 2020
I love the power of serendipity when I’m out looking for books.
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The Man in the Red Coat posted on 27 Oct 2020
Guest writer, Alun Severn reads Julian Barnes' 'The Man in the Red Coat' and finds the author showing off his intellectual prowess to no good purpose.
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Double, Double posted on 22 Oct 2020
John Brunner John Brunner (1934 – 1995) is something of a lost figure of British science fiction..
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The Waters of Kronos posted on 20 Oct 2020
This comparatively short novel, which was published in 1960, won the National Book Award for Fiction in the States the following year.
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Wartime Lies posted on 16 Oct 2020
Guest reviewer Alun Severn reads Louis Begley's novel that tells the wartime story of a child who witnessed the hell of the Holocaust.