Inspiring Older Readers
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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,
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The Beast in the Shadows posted on 20 Aug 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads The Beast in the Shadows by Edogawa Rampo recently released in Penguin's new Crime & Espionage series.
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Ukridge posted on 14 Aug 2023
The world of P.G. Wodehouse is one eagerly entered into by some readers but which remains resolutely locked and barred to others
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The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War posted on 09 Aug 2023
Peter Stansky has a long and well-regarded pedigree when it comes to popular academic studies and critiques of George Orwell.
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The Neon Rain posted on 30 Jul 2023
The recent death of Cormac McCarthy has robbed the world of the most eminent chronicler of America’s dark heart. That baton has now passed on to Burke