Inspiring Older Readers
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Clete posted on 24 Jul 2024
I strongly support those who claim that the 87 year-old James Lee Burke has earned the right to be considered one of America’s greats
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House of the Sleeping Beauties posted on 21 Jul 2024
Kawabata is, I think, something of an acquired taste. He was Japan’s first ever winner of a Nobel Prize winner...
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A Dry White Season posted on 17 Jul 2024
André Brink (1935-2015), a South African novelist who wrote in Afrikaans as well as English...
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Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and Humanist posted on 15 Jul 2024
My guess is that if you’ve ever heard of Leon Battista Alberti (1404 – 1472) it will be because of two things
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Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address posted on 10 Jul 2024
It somehow feels entirely appropriate, in this year when the USA stands on the edge of what might be its most significant Presidential election..
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Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship posted on 08 Jul 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads 'Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship' and finds it a tragic story 'deeply evocative and exhaustively researched
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The pleasures of cheap, sensational books posted on 03 Jul 2024
If you’re old enough, cast your mind back to the days when Woolworths or W.H. Smiths stocked a range of books...
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Full Dark House posted on 30 Jun 2024
Full Dark House (2003) is the very first novel to feature the detective duo of Arthur Bryant and John May.
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The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars posted on 26 Jun 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads The Real and the Romantic, Frances Spalding’s huge survey of English art between the wars
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The Children of Men posted on 23 Jun 2024
Fans of P.D. James are more likely to think of her as a crime or thriller writer rather than a writer of dystopian fiction