Inspiring Older Readers
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The Christmas Chronicles posted on 31 Dec 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn spends his holiday break reading the "deeply enjoyable and ..beautifully produced ... Christmas Chronicles."
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The Inferno posted on 29 Dec 2018
A while ago I reviewed Fred Hoyle’s earlier slice of science fiction hokum, The Black Cloud, and found it similar to watching a 1950s British ‘B’ movie
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Alexander Pope posted on 27 Dec 2018
If I went out onto the streets of my home town and asked a selection of the good burghers of Malvern to name a short list of the most famous...
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In Praise of Shadows posted on 23 Dec 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reviews a meditative masterpiece of classic Japanese literature
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Mad, Bad and Dangerous To Know: The fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce posted on 19 Dec 2018
Toibin’s book has its origins in a series of lectures he delivered in the USA ...
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The Enigma of Arrival posted on 13 Dec 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, returns to the work of V.S. Naipaul and ponders the proposition that 'great subjects are illuminated best by small dramas’
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After Magritte posted on 11 Dec 2018
This is a play I’m very fond of ever since I first saw it produced by the drama department when I was at Bangor University
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The Shipping News posted on 09 Dec 2018
Rereading books you especially loved the first time around can be a tense experience ...
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Great Jones Street posted on 06 Dec 2018
I came to this novel in a round-about way; I saw it listed on a ‘ten-best novels about rock music’ list ...
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With Borges posted on 30 Nov 2018
Born in Argentina but now living in Canada, Alberto Manguel has always been upfront about the debt he owes to Jorge Luis Borges