Inspiring Older Readers
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Book Towns: forty-five paradises of the printed word posted on 11 Feb 2019
Is there any bleaker time of the year than those freezing days at the end of January and the first half of February?
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Somewhere Towards the End posted on 08 Feb 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn marks the passing of Diana Athill, one of the greats of British publishing in the 20th century.
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Revolutionary Road posted on 05 Feb 2019
Revolutionary Road, published in 1961, was Yates’ first novel and for the best part of forty years it all but vanished
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Classic Covers: Festival At Fairbridge posted on 04 Feb 2019
If the job of a dust jacket is to capture and represent the spirit of the book it has been designed for and to catch the attention of potential readers..
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Stuff posted on 31 Jan 2019
Those of you familiar with the anarchic spirit of cartoonist Martin Rowson’s spectacularly vicious political satire won’t be in the least surprised...
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Strike a Pose! Why do we like looking at photographs of writers? posted on 30 Jan 2019
Over the weekend I was determined to try and stay away from my computer keyboard...
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Sabbath’s Theater posted on 28 Jan 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn continues his reading of Philip Roth and discovers that even the greatest names in literature can have a bad day in the office.
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Homintern : How gay culture liberated the modern world posted on 25 Jan 2019
I seem to be using the phrase ‘an interesting book that ultimately fails to deliver quite what it promised’ a lot recently.
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Green Ink Booksellers posted on 24 Jan 2019
Green Ink Booksellers, Hay on Wye
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In Sunlight or in Shadow : Stories inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper posted on 21 Jan 2019
Intriguingly enough, right at the start of this anthology, editor Lawrence Block tells us...