Inspiring Older Readers
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Burning the Books: A history of knowledge under attack posted on 10 May 2021
This sterling defence of libraries and archives and the need to defend these reservoirs of human ‘knowledge’ comes from the head honcho of The Bodleian
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Among the Gently Mad: strategies and perspectives for the book hunter in the twenty-first century posted on 08 May 2021
U.S. author, Basbanes is bibliophilic aristocracy and he can boast an impressive back catalogue of publications.......
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The Inimitable Jeeves posted on 05 May 2021
Choose to read a Wodehouse and you know exactly what you’re going to get – a carefully created comic world ....
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Book Cover Design posted on 02 May 2021
You’ll find plenty of other articles on this site that trumpet the merits of great book design.
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Edgar Wallace and the case of the Four Just Men posted on 29 Apr 2021
I recently listened to a Radio Four Extra programme in which crime novelist Mark Billingham reviewed the life and career of the prolific pulp...
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Goodbye, Columbus posted on 26 Apr 2021
A novella rather than a novel, Goodbye, Columbus was first published in The Paris Review ...
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The World In The Evening posted on 22 Apr 2021
,I’ve always felt a bit sorry for poor old Christopher Isherwood. His name always seems to get linked to, and live in the shadow of, W.H. Auden...
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Here is New York: E.B. White’s most famous essay posted on 19 Apr 2021
Guest writer, Alun Severn considers the most famous work of 'one of the twentieth century’s greatest essayists'
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Tropic of Cancer posted on 15 Apr 2021
It’s been over thirty years since I first read this book. I was astonished by it then and I have been astonished again this time around.
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Adventures of Hiram Holliday posted on 12 Apr 2021
The author of this rather charming fantasy was often fondly dismissive of his creation...........