Inspiring Older Readers
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The Hours posted on 11 Jul 2022
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn is surprised and delighted by Michael Cunningham's reworking of Virginia Woolf's classic, Mrs Dalloway.
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The Darling Buds of May posted on 07 Jul 2022
I suspect that the H.E. Bates book has largely been eclipsed by the popularity of the television programme ...
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Stories of the Night posted on 04 Jul 2022
Stories of the Night edited by Denys Val Baker Anthologies of ghost stories are very common and, as you might suspect, very variable in quality. There are
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A visit to Harrogate: Imagined Things and John Atkinson Books posted on 30 Jun 2022
A visit to Harrogate: Imagined Things and John Atkinson Books
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Old School posted on 27 Jun 2022
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Tobias Wolff's only novel and believes 'it contains some of Wolff’s most sensuously exact, lushly descriptive writing'
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City of Night posted on 23 Jun 2022
US novelist and essay writer Rechy was born in 1931 and has had to overcome plenty of adverse criticism ...
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The Quality of Hurt posted on 20 Jun 2022
Black American author, Chester Himes (1909 – 1984) is probably best known in this country for his hard-edged Harlem Detective series of books
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The Best of Books and Company posted on 16 Jun 2022
I'm not much of a fan of Susan Hill as a novelist but it can't be denied that she has a lengthy pedigree when it comes to a love of books ...
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More on Barbara Pym posted on 13 Jun 2022
Guest writer, Alun Severn looks back at the work of Barbara Pym and finds her 'a more complex, more accomplished and more acerbic writer' than he expected.
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The Gay Metropolis 1940 – 1996 posted on 09 Jun 2022
Kaiser is a journalist who has previously been a New York Times reporter and Newsweek editor – and it shows.