Inspiring Older Readers
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Casting the Runes posted on 14 Sep 2018
The other evening I noticed that a remote digital television channel was showing the movie, The Night of the Demon,....
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Strangers to England: Immigration to England 1100 – 1945 posted on 11 Sep 2018
One of the drawbacks to having a job in academia – especially in a subject like sociology – is that the books you tend to read ....
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Browse: The World in Bookshops posted on 09 Sep 2018
Anyone who knows me will no doubt be casting their eyes to the heavens when they see this...
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The Diary of a Provincial Lady posted on 06 Sep 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn enters the gently satirical world of E.M. Delafield's 'Diary of a Provincial Lady' and finds something "warmly humane"
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Auto Da Fé posted on 02 Sep 2018
Elias Canetti belonged to that ever dwindling band of twentieth century writers and thinkers who might be called European public intellectuals.
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Just Kids posted on 29 Aug 2018
I first heard Patti Smith’s music in 1976 when her first single, a cover of Jimi Hendrix’s Hey Joe, was released.
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Returning to Reims posted on 27 Aug 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds Didier Eribon's essentially sociological approach to his memoir gets in the way of the human story
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Cassandra Complex posted on 25 Aug 2018
Jonathan Taylor’s latest book of poetry published by Shoestring Press is described on the back cover as....
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Gig: the life and times of a rock-star fantasist posted on 22 Aug 2018
If you are ever unfortunate enough to have me as a visitor to your house, you’ll find I can’t really sit still ...
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Howards End posted on 19 Aug 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds himself intrigued by "an absorbing time capsule of ideas and attitudes at the beginning of the twentieth century".