Inspiring Older Readers
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A Canticle For Leibowitz posted on 29 Apr 2025
Walter Miller was a regular contributor to the science fiction magazines which were proliferating in the US....
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The Laughter of my Father posted on 27 Apr 2025
Carlos Bulosan (1913 – 1956) was a name completely new to me when I stumbled upon his 1945 publication, The Laughter of my Father
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Seekers of Wonder posted on 23 Apr 2025
The sub-title of this book – Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland – will give you a usefully encapsulated idea....
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Les Enfants Terribles posted on 20 Apr 2025
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau (1889 – 1963) was a French poet, novelist and film director
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A Garden Of Sand posted on 12 Apr 2025
Thompson died young of heart disease in 1978 – he was only 47 years old – just as his reputation as a writer was becoming established.
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Bookish: How reading shapes our lives posted on 09 Apr 2025
I can’t give an exact date for when books - reading them, collecting them, hunting them down - first came into my life
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Billy Bathgate posted on 31 Mar 2025
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow Doctorow and serves to remind us of what an extraordinary craftsman was.
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Destination Unknown posted on 23 Mar 2025
Christie’s name has become so indelibly associated with the ‘cosy crime’ genre she virtually defined ...
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The Path to the Spiders’ Nests posted on 19 Mar 2025
Writer, journalist and literary critic, Italo Calvino (1923 – 1985) is perhaps most associated with that generation of post-war European public intellectua
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Who Killed My Father posted on 17 Mar 2025
When I picked up this slim book, I have to be honest and confess that the young French author, Édouard Louis was a new name to me,