Inspiring Older Readers
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Larry McMurtry: ‘book rancher’ posted on 27 Jul 2017
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Larry McMurtry's autobiographical reflections on his life in books.
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Dying without a strategic plan posted on 23 Jul 2017
I read a lot of books about books, book collecting and the people who collect or sell books – it’s become a bit of a nerdy obsession.
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A Little Bit of This and A Little Bit of That posted on 18 Jul 2017
What do you think of the prose anthology?
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The Gold Leaf : A perfect second hand bookshop? posted on 09 Jul 2017
When I’ve got the odd hour to fill and I’m not wrapped up with reading anything that demands all my time...
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The Friends of the National Libraries posted on 29 Jun 2017
Guest contributor, Linda Hart, asks if you ever wondered why so much of our literary heritage has ended up abroad and what we can do about it.
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The joys of sharing books with older readers posted on 22 Jun 2017
As an ex teacher I always enjoy doing one of our ' Wild Things and Gold Rings' events with children in playgroups, nurseries and schools.
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Colette at the table: M F K Fisher posted on 21 Jun 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn reviews the career of a writer he thinks is a 'strange, unrepeatable cross between Colette and Hemingway'.
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Going back to the source and drawing from the well posted on 16 Jun 2017
The fashion for drawing on or even reinterpreting mythology seems to ebb and flow.
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Pen and Scalpel: The new school of surgeon-writers posted on 11 Jun 2017
Guest writer, Alun Severn considers the great writing that gives us a privileged look into the real world of the medical practitioner.
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Jane Austen: Sorry, but I just don’t get it posted on 31 May 2017
My time at university as an English Literature undergraduate student now feels so distant that I don’t have many memories I can wholly trust