Inspiring Older Readers
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Summoned By Bells posted on 29 Oct 2019
To a lot of people it might seem odd that I feel I’m confessing to something a little bit sinful by saying that I’ve got a soft spot for John Betjeman
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Flowers for Algernon posted on 27 Oct 2019
First published in 1966, Flowers for Algernon in novel form was the result of an adaptation of American author, Daniel Keyes’ successful...
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An Interview with Terry Geo posted on 24 Oct 2019
An Interview with Terry Geo
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Solaris posted on 23 Oct 2019
What good is a label if pretty much everyone disagrees about how you use it?
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Rereading John Hersey’s Hiroshima posted on 21 Oct 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn revisits John Hersey's classic account of the use of the first nuclear weapon in war
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The Testaments posted on 18 Oct 2019
If you’re interested in books and reading you can’t have missed the huge promotional blitz that has surrounded the release of The Testaments....
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A surfeit of bile posted on 15 Oct 2019
From Ancient Greece to Europe in the mid-Eighteenth Century, medicine and philosophy was dominated by the theory of ‘humours’.
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The last of the 2019 Cheltenham Festival posted on 14 Oct 2019
The last of the 2019 Cheltenham Festival
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead posted on 12 Oct 2019
For a boy raised on television drama, an encounter with an absurdist comedy was as bewildering and alien as it’s possible to get ...
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The 2019 Cheltenham Literature Festival : the first weekend posted on 10 Oct 2019
I have to be honest and say that I thought this year’s festival programme was, from a purely literary point of view, a bit of a disappointment.