Inspiring Older Readers
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Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship posted on 08 Jul 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads 'Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship' and finds it a tragic story 'deeply evocative and exhaustively researched
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The pleasures of cheap, sensational books posted on 03 Jul 2024
If you’re old enough, cast your mind back to the days when Woolworths or W.H. Smiths stocked a range of books...
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Full Dark House posted on 30 Jun 2024
Full Dark House (2003) is the very first novel to feature the detective duo of Arthur Bryant and John May.
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The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars posted on 26 Jun 2024
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads The Real and the Romantic, Frances Spalding’s huge survey of English art between the wars
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The Children of Men posted on 23 Jun 2024
Fans of P.D. James are more likely to think of her as a crime or thriller writer rather than a writer of dystopian fiction
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Junkie posted on 18 Jun 2024
So what is this? A memoir written under the pseudonym of William Lee or a novel written by William Burroughs – or maybe both?
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Bullet Train posted on 16 Jun 2024
I think the rise and rise in popularity of young Japanese authors in translation has been one of the most remarkable features of the literary landscape
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Remembering radical bookselling in the 1980s posted on 12 Jun 2024
Regular guest contributor to the Letterpress Project, Alun Severn worked in radical bookselling in the mid-80s and has written a reminiscence of this time
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The Long Divorce posted on 09 Jun 2024
I’ve written extensively about the work of Bruce Montgomery (aka Edmund Crispin) elsewhere on this site
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The Times Authors Number 2: George Orwell posted on 05 Jun 2024
Back at the start of the 1970s when I was beginning to discover the excitement of reading and literature, I relied heavily on the Sunday broadsheets