Inspiring Older Readers
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The Aeneid of Virgil posted on 24 Mar 2018
I am pitifully ignorant when it comes to some of the major texts of the Classical world
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Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading posted on 22 Mar 2018
I've always enjoyed reading this author’s witty pieces in The Guardian and elsewhere but really became a fan when I discovered that she was an avid childre
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The Victorian City: Everyday Life In Dickens’ London posted on 21 Mar 2018
There seems to have been quite a lot written in recent years about London as a city and Victorian London in particular.
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The Weird Side of Famous Writers — 20 Quirks & Strange Habits posted on 20 Mar 2018
Freelance writer and blogger, Jack Milgram looks at the quirkier side of the great names of literature
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Packing My Library posted on 18 Mar 2018
A new book on books by Alberto Manguel is always a big occasion as far as I’m concerned.
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Candide and Other Romances by Voltaire, translated by Richard Aldington and illustrated by Norman Tealby posted on 18 Mar 2018
Voltaire’s Candide has been one of my favourite satirical novellas ever since I first read it all those years ago ....
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Home of the Gentry posted on 17 Mar 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds Ivan Turgenev provides a subtle portrait of love and life in aristocratic pre-revolutionary Russia.
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With all this confusion it’s hardly surprising that the value of working class writing is so frequently overlooked. posted on 15 Mar 2018
The excellent Kit de Waal has recently used her growing reputation to highlight the shameful neglect of working class authors within a book industry..
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The Leather Boys posted on 13 Mar 2018
This story of a blossoming gay romance between two working class teenage biker boys was published in 1961....
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Cast adrift in a bookless wilderness posted on 12 Mar 2018
Weekends are special to me because they are the time I ring-fence for finding books and we try to get out as widely as we can..