Inspiring Older Readers
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Our Man In Havana posted on 09 Apr 2018
One of our guest reviewers and writers, Alun Severn wrote a piece for this site back in February 2016 that he called 'Greeneland'...
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A Life of My Own posted on 07 Apr 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Claire Tomalin's honest and unflinching autobiography. So why is he oddly disappointed?
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The Gifts of Reading posted on 06 Apr 2018
This slim 40 page pocket-sized offering is the latest in the line of Penguin published booklets ...
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Goodbye To All That posted on 03 Apr 2018
I should say from the outset that this is a review of the revised second edition of Graves’ autobiography that was released in 1957
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The Flood posted on 31 Mar 2018
This is the first Maggie Gee novel I’ve read and it’s quite an experience – not, I confess, one without its problems.
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The 32 Stops posted on 27 Mar 2018
As a university lecturer I seem to spend a lot of time thinking how best to bring the issues of social and economic inequality to life for students.
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The Aeneid of Virgil posted on 24 Mar 2018
I am pitifully ignorant when it comes to some of the major texts of the Classical world
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Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading posted on 22 Mar 2018
I've always enjoyed reading this author’s witty pieces in The Guardian and elsewhere but really became a fan when I discovered that she was an avid childre
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The Victorian City: Everyday Life In Dickens’ London posted on 21 Mar 2018
There seems to have been quite a lot written in recent years about London as a city and Victorian London in particular.
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Packing My Library posted on 18 Mar 2018
A new book on books by Alberto Manguel is always a big occasion as far as I’m concerned.