Inspiring Older Readers
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British Prints from the Machine Age posted on 10 Jan 2018
The experience of the First World War and the growing certainty and collective fear that there would be a second seems to have made the inter-war years...
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The Girl From The Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell posted on 08 Jan 2018
Sonia Brownell became Sonia Orwell just two or three months before the author’s death and until she herself died in 1980 ...
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One Fat Englishman posted on 07 Jan 2018
I’ve read very little Kingsley Amis – I certainly loved Lucky Jim when I first encountered it ...
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The Movie-Goer posted on 06 Jan 2018
The Movie-goer was Walker Percy’s debut novel published in 1961, winning the US National Book Award ....
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A Book-lover in Katmandu posted on 05 Jan 2018
This article originally appeared in the 2016 Letterpress Project publication 'Bookshop Memories Revisited'
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William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies posted on 04 Jan 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads John Carey's 'magnificent.. first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate Golding'.
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An Interview With Oisin McGann posted on 04 Jan 2018
An Interview With Oisin McGann
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The New Moon with the Old posted on 02 Jan 2018
Last night I dreamed that a handsome and dignified older man sought me out and pressed a secret message into my hand
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Joan Hassall posted on 02 Jan 2018
Is there an illustrative art form that’s more under-rated than that of the wood engraver and printer?
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The Bookman’s Wake posted on 29 Dec 2017
In the luxurious position of having Christmas Day and Boxing Day stretching out in front of me with no commitments ....