Inspiring Older Readers
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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ posted on 04 Aug 2020
Back in 1985 when this was first published, it was a sensation shifting the best part of two million copies in no time.
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Sixpence House: Lost in a town of books posted on 03 Aug 2020
Quite why American author, Paul Collins and his family decided it was a good idea to relocate from San Francisco on America’s West coast to Hay-on-Wye,
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Is this my summer of the short story? posted on 30 Jul 2020
At the very start of ‘lockdown’ (or more ominously perhaps, ‘lockdown one’) I wrote a piece for this website saying how hard I was finding it to read
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A Handful of Dust posted on 27 Jul 2020
In an exchange of emails with one of Letterpress’ regular guest book reviewers ...
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The Monsters We Deserve posted on 24 Jul 2020
British-born Marcus Sedgwick has had a diverse career as bookseller, publisher, illustrator and successful writer for young adults
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Mudlarking posted on 21 Jul 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds himself fascinated by the etiquette of uncovering what the past has left behind for us to discover.
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Passing posted on 17 Jul 2020
Like so many long neglected Black authors of the so-called Harlem Renaissance of the late 1920s, Nella Larsen’s work has found a new audience..
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Tobacco Road posted on 14 Jul 2020
Setting a novel in the dustbowl of Georgia USA during the Great Depression of the Thirties really should give any reader a pretty strong signal ...
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Bibliomania posted on 10 Jul 2020
At the end of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th, a strange malady seemed to grip some intellectuals...
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy posted on 09 Jul 2020
If your first encounter with Douglas Adams’ extraordinary feat of philosophically genre-bending comic imagination was via the original 1978 radio version