Inspiring Older Readers
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Once Upon a Time at Perrin’s House Residential and Nursing Care Home posted on 06 Dec 2017
Most people seem to enjoy listening to a well told story so why should it be any different for the elderly residents ....
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Means-Test Man posted on 05 Dec 2017
Published in 1935, Walter Brierley’s Means-Test Man was, by 1939, considered as essential to understanding the working class experiences
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I See A City: Todd Webb’s New York posted on 03 Dec 2017
This is one of those truly stunning photographic collections that art publishers, Thames and Hudson, do so very well.
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Why Dylan Matters posted on 03 Dec 2017
When I read several early and extremely positive reviews of the Classics scholar, Richard Thomas’ book about Bob Dylan I was pretty keen to get hold of..
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The Violet Hour posted on 02 Dec 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads a book of essays that illuminate the last days of some great 20th century writers and thinkers
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When ‘now’ books become ‘yesterday’s’ books posted on 28 Nov 2017
At some point in most academic semesters I begin to trawl through the books on my office shelves to weed out the stuff I’m unlikely to ever read again
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Reading Bernard MacLaverty posted on 26 Nov 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn takes a look at the work of Belfast-born, Glasgow-based novelist and acclaimed short story writer Bernard MacLaverty
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The Electric Michelangelo posted on 24 Nov 2017
I remember Sarah Hall’s book being published in 2004 to significant acclaim and although I bought a copy I somehow never got around to reading it.
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The Borrower posted on 22 Nov 2017
As I am an avid reader and also a lover of mysteries, this first novel by Rebecca Makkai promised to be right up my street.
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Fond Memories of a Small Prairie Bookshop posted on 21 Nov 2017
This article first appeared in the Letterpress Project publication, Bookshop Memories Revisited