Inspiring Older Readers
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Hay Festival 2018 programme posted on 27 Mar 2018
The full programme for this year's Hay festival has now been published ...
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The 32 Stops posted on 27 Mar 2018
As a university lecturer I seem to spend a lot of time thinking how best to bring the issues of social and economic inequality to life for students.
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Ida Kar, Bohemian Photographer posted on 26 Mar 2018
Ida Kar (1908 – 1974) has come to be acknowledged as one of the true pioneers of photography as an art form..
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English Urbane and Irish Fizz at the Oxford Literary Festival posted on 24 Mar 2018
Our only trip to this year’s Oxford Literary festival was to see two literary heavyweights in rapid succession.
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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 ....