Inspiring Older Readers
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High Street posted on 08 Apr 2019
Guest writer, Alun Severn considers the exquisite charm of the pre-chain store High Street as imagined by Richards and Ravilious
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142 Strand posted on 07 Apr 2019
One of my favourite poems of all time is Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach. It’s a deeply moving and elegiac contemplation...
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You keep it posted on 03 Apr 2019
A new short story from Jonathan Taylor
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Vive La Revolution posted on 02 Apr 2019
If you’ve ever tried to read some of the more academic studies of the French Revolution of 1789 you won’t need me to tell you ...
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High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories posted on 31 Mar 2019
A collection of modern short stories with the theme of alcohol might not have caught my attention...
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The Pyramid posted on 27 Mar 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads William Golding's social satire of the British class system and finds that the author has 'confounded his critics'.
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Orwell’s Message : 1984 and the Present posted on 25 Mar 2019
George Woodcock, who died in 1995 at the age of 82, was a Canadian author, political theorist and literary critic ...
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Button & Bear, Shrewsbury posted on 24 Mar 2019
It’s been a while since I last went to Shrewsbury and I was delighted to find that a new dedicated independent children’s bookshop
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Doing it in the bath? posted on 23 Mar 2019
The other day I was talking to a work colleague about how I’d spent a whole Sunday doing nothing but reading a new book...
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Tales of Wonder posted on 22 Mar 2019
Back in June of last year we published an interview on this site with Jack Zipes ...