Inspiring Older Readers
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The Comedians posted on 03 May 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn takes another dip into 'Greeneland', this time with the novelist's take on Papa Doc Duvalier’s Haiti.
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The Language of Kindness: A Nurses Story posted on 28 Apr 2019
Guest reviewer, Julia Neall finds Christie Watson's memoir "pulls no punches" in its description of modern day nursing
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The Siege of Krishnapur posted on 26 Apr 2019
In the list of unfortunate and untimely deaths, Farrell’s in 1979 at the age of 44 must rank as one of the most tragic.
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No Country for Old Men posted on 23 Apr 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reappraises a Cormac McCarthy novel that leaves him feeling "that the book doesn’t quite work"
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Appointment in Samarra posted on 20 Apr 2019
O’Hara is another example of an author whose identity and reputation has gradually slipped off the front page...
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After the Fire posted on 19 Apr 2019
Frederic Welin is a seventy year old retired doctor who lives alone on an island in the Swedish archipelago.
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Nightmare Abbey posted on 17 Apr 2019
I think that any list of once popular but now almost completely neglected authors would require the inclusion of Thomas Love Peacock.
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Rereading Don DeLillo’s Underworld posted on 15 Apr 2019
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn tackles a contender for the title of 'The Great American Novel'
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Tolkien’s Gown & Other Stories of Great and Rare Books posted on 10 Apr 2019
For book collectors or anyone interested in second hand and antiquarian books, Rick Gekoski probably needs no introduction.
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142 Strand posted on 07 Apr 2019
One of my favourite poems of all time is Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach. It’s a deeply moving and elegiac contemplation...