Inspiring Older Readers
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Hide My Eyes posted on 18 Mar 2021
This is the first Allingham I’ve read and I have to admit that I expected that I would be reading something that was from the same stable ...
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Edna, the Inebriate Woman posted on 15 Mar 2021
When screen writer Jeremy Sandford’s 1966 Play for Today, Cathy Come Home exploded onto the scene in 1966 it marked a key moment ...
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Ritual posted on 11 Mar 2021
It’s interesting just how often cult movies and cult novels are symbiotically linked together.
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Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany posted on 04 Mar 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Bill Buford's mix of food culture and Gonzo restaurateurs and finds the whole confection good - in parts.
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A Modest Proposal posted on 01 Mar 2021
For the vast majority of my working life I have been involved in projects that have been all about challenging poverty
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1956: The world in revolt posted on 25 Feb 2021
When I was at school in the Fifties and Sixties history seemed to me to be a procession of ‘significant’ dates.
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The Long Way Back posted on 22 Feb 2021
In October of last year I wrote a slightly snivelling article about just how impossible it has been to find a copy of Margot Bennett’s The Long Way Back.
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The Contenders posted on 18 Feb 2021
When I reviewed John Wain’s first novel, Hurry On Down, I commented on the evaporation of the author’s literary profile.
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Rereading Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories posted on 16 Feb 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads a selection of short stories by F. Scottt Fitzgerald and finds the 'best of his work can be so heartbreakingly beautiful'
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A Dream of Heroes posted on 12 Feb 2021
Casares is a giant of Argentinian literature but probably comparatively little known by general readers in the UK