Inspiring Older Readers
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Exile and the Kingdom posted on 25 Aug 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Albert Camus' only collection of short stories that are 'more akin to existentialist parables'
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The Book Collectors of Daraya posted on 22 Aug 2021
I still find it hard to really comprehend the way a series of small, peaceful but determined anti-government protests during 2011 in Damascus,
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Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge posted on 19 Aug 2021
Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge
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Sarah Key Books, also known as The Haunted Bookshop, Cambridge posted on 19 Aug 2021
Sarah Key Books, also known as The Haunted Bookshop, Cambridge
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Hart’s Books, Saffron Walden posted on 19 Aug 2021
Hart’s Books, Saffron Walden
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Goodbye to Berlin posted on 16 Aug 2021
Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical novel depicting Weimar Germany in the years prior to the outbreak of World War...
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The Illustrated Summoned by Bells posted on 13 Aug 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds The Illustrated Summoned by Bells a perfect bit of summer reading.
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Weather posted on 10 Aug 2021
There was a lot of praise in the world of literary criticism for Jenny Offill’s 2014 novel, The Dept. of Speculation .....
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A Bookshop in Algiers posted on 05 Aug 2021
Edmond Charlot almost inadvertently became one of the heroes of 20th century book selling and publishing...
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Berlin Finale posted on 01 Aug 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn wrestles with Heinz Rein's post-war analysis of German rebuilding and the cost that Nazism exacted.