Inspiring Older Readers
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Weekend in Dinlock posted on 25 Sep 2023
Chicago-born Clancy Sigal (1926 – 2017) was an interesting and now, I think, largely forgotten novelist, journalist and radical political activist.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn posted on 20 Sep 2023
Some books take us into the world of alternative, transgressive communities ...
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The River Capture posted on 18 Sep 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads a novel that pays homage to James Joyce while also re-imagining his legacy in the context of contemporary Ireland
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Diary of a Nobody posted on 13 Sep 2023
I’d personally go as far as saying that George and Weedon Grossmith’s timeless creation, The Diary of a Nobody, could be considered a cult novel.
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Smut posted on 10 Sep 2023
What sort of images leap into your mind when you think of the subjects and writing style of Alan Bennett?
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All Quiet On The Western Front posted on 06 Sep 2023
Remarque’s novel of the terror and futility of war seen through the eyes of a German combatant in the First World War.
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A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City posted on 03 Sep 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn enjoys Edward Chisholm's kitchen memoir which invokes George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London.
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The Spy’s Bedside Book posted on 30 Aug 2023
This really is one of those fascinating little curiosities of the publishing world that seem to come from left-field but somehow settle into the mainstream
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The Wasteland: A Biography of a Poem posted on 28 Aug 2023
The Wasteland: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis What does T.S. Eliot’s long poem, The Wasteland, have in common with James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses?
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Remainders of the Day: More diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown posted on 23 Aug 2023
Back in 2017, I reviewed Shaun Bythell’s first instalment of his bookshop diaries, Diary of a Bookseller,