Inspiring Older Readers
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Ulysses posted on 20 Jul 2018
Released in 2017 and only available from The Folio Society, this lavish and extraordinary edition doesn’t come cheap.
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A Year in Provence posted on 20 Jul 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, has a mellow moment with the illustrated edition of Peter Mayle's genre-creating travel book. A guilty pleasure?
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They Walk In The City posted on 17 Jul 2018
I think it’s fair to say that Priestley isn’t so much a ‘novelist’ as a storyteller.
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Adrian Mitchell’s Poetry and Protest: To Whom It May Concern (Tell me lies about Vietnam) posted on 15 Jul 2018
This weekend the USA’s most controversial President since ‘Tricky Dicky’ Nixon paid a visit to the UK
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An Interview with Rachel Finch posted on 14 Jul 2018
An Interview with Rachel Finch
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The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted posted on 13 Jul 2018
I must confess that I take as axiomatic that I'm likely to disagree with anything Donald Rumsfeld has to say.
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Classic Covers: Lord of the Flies posted on 12 Jul 2018
Classic Covers is an occasional appreciation of first edition book jackets from our own collection.
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Burning the Days posted on 12 Jul 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn takes on James Salter's memoir and finds himself haunted by the ghost of Ernest Hemingway
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An Interview with Alistair Moore posted on 11 Jul 2018
An Interview with Alastair Moore
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Meeting the celebrities down at the bookshop posted on 10 Jul 2018
The other day when I was searching a second hand book market site online looking for Luke Reinhart’s The Dice Man