Inspiring Older Readers
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Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time posted on 04 Nov 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads the biography of Powell and concludes that his was the 'greatest English novel sequence that has ever been written.'
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Why I love libraries….even though my relationship with them has been a difficult one posted on 02 Nov 2018
Let me start by saying that I love libraries and everything they stand for...
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British Communism & The Politics of Literature 1928 – 1939 posted on 01 Nov 2018
First published in 2012, British Communism & The Politics of Literature is a scholarly attempt to reassess the contribution to literary criticism.....
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An Artist of the Floating World posted on 30 Oct 2018
An 'Artist of the Floating World' could well be the best book I’ve read this year....
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The Bloody Chamber posted on 27 Oct 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Angela Carter's idiosyncratic reworkings of classic fairy stories
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Children’s books and the adult reader posted on 26 Oct 2018
During this year’s Cheltenham Literary Festival I went along to hear the great children’s book author and illustrator, Helen Oxenbury
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Ramparts of Resistance posted on 24 Oct 2018
One of the outstanding features of politics in the UK during the last decade has been the near disappearance of trade unionism as a presence...
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The Vampire: A New history posted on 22 Oct 2018
This new, meticulously researched investigation into the nature of the Vampire in myth, literature and politics has been published...
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Herman Melville’s Moby Dick illustrated by Rockwell Kent posted on 21 Oct 2018
The three volume first American edition of Melville’s Moby Dick that was illustrated by Rockwell Kent in 1930 has become almost totemic
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Sum Total posted on 18 Oct 2018
I wonder who remembers Ray Gosling now? I suspect you have to be my sort of vintage – over 60 – or working in the media industry to recall...