Inspiring Older Readers
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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..
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The Final Solution posted on 12 Mar 2018
Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, is certainly one that would come into contention ...
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In The Sixties posted on 11 Mar 2018
German born photographer, Frank Habicht attended the Hamburg School of Photography at the age of 24 in 1962 ...
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Satan In The Suburbs posted on 09 Mar 2018
At the grand old age of 80, Bertrand Russell turned his hand to writing fiction.....
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Three novels for snow days posted on 07 Mar 2018
Because of the unusually harsh recent weather I have been able to stay snuggled at home and make my way through more books than usual.
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The Road To Hell posted on 06 Mar 2018
If there was ever a book that demonstrates just how superior a bookshop is to the internet if you are a lover of serendipity then this is it.
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Books, Baguettes & Bedbugs: The Left Bank World of Shakespeare & Co. posted on 04 Mar 2018
When I first saw this book I rather leapt to the conclusion that it was going to be another of those amiable, largely biographic memoirs