Inspiring Older Readers
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Zorba the Greek posted on 12 Nov 2018
I really didn’t know what to expect when I finally got around to picking this book up – it’s been on my shelves for such a long time ...
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Married Lies posted on 11 Nov 2018
Chris Collett has successfully reworked and polished all eight books in the wonderful Detective Tom Mariner series set in Birmingham
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The Dark Philosophers posted on 07 Nov 2018
I have to admit that I’d never heard of Gwyn Thomas (1913 – 1981) until I came across this book...
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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...