Inspiring Older Readers
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The Disenchanted posted on 11 Dec 2022
Budd Schulberg might be a new name to a lot of people but if you’re an aficionado of cinema history you’ll surely know him ...
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The Old Boys posted on 07 Dec 2022
Published in 1964 when he was 36 years old, The Old Boys is often referred to as William Trevor’s first novel...
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Preexisting Conditions: Recounting the Plague posted on 04 Dec 2022
Although we are still living with the very real problems of our own pandemic, Covid 19 isn’t, of course, the first or only ‘plague’ to have tested ....
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Even the Darkest Night posted on 30 Nov 2022
Cercas is perhaps best associated with thoughtful and emotionally complex novels about the consequences of the Spanish Civil War
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Bacon in Moscow posted on 27 Nov 2022
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn takes us into the murky world of art dealing as the Soviet Union collapses into a gangster state.
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Bibliomaniac posted on 23 Nov 2022
Broadcaster and comedian, Robin Ince shares an obsession with me – books.
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White Eagles Over Serbia posted on 20 Nov 2022
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn discovers that Lawrence Durrell can write an old-fashioned thriller of the kind John Buchan or Geoffrey Household would admire
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Lessons posted on 16 Nov 2022
I’ve been buying and reading the more recent of Ian McEwan’s novels out of a sort of loyalty to an author whose earlier work felt essential and relevant.
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Blood Meridian posted on 09 Nov 2022
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Cormac McCarthy's shocking novel that he describes as a ‘cowboy novel startlingly reinvented as Jacobean tragedy'
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Free Fall posted on 06 Nov 2022
Published in 1959 and Golding’s fourth novel, Free Fall, takes us into the mind of the spiritually (and physically) tormented artist, Sammy Mountjoy.