Inspiring Older Readers
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The Hours posted on 11 Jul 2022
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn is surprised and delighted by Michael Cunningham's reworking of Virginia Woolf's classic, Mrs Dalloway.
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The Darling Buds of May posted on 07 Jul 2022
I suspect that the H.E. Bates book has largely been eclipsed by the popularity of the television programme ...
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Stories of the Night posted on 04 Jul 2022
Stories of the Night edited by Denys Val Baker Anthologies of ghost stories are very common and, as you might suspect, very variable in quality. There are
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Old School posted on 27 Jun 2022
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Tobias Wolff's only novel and believes 'it contains some of Wolff’s most sensuously exact, lushly descriptive writing'
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City of Night posted on 23 Jun 2022
US novelist and essay writer Rechy was born in 1931 and has had to overcome plenty of adverse criticism ...
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The Quality of Hurt posted on 20 Jun 2022
Black American author, Chester Himes (1909 – 1984) is probably best known in this country for his hard-edged Harlem Detective series of books
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The Best of Books and Company posted on 16 Jun 2022
I'm not much of a fan of Susan Hill as a novelist but it can't be denied that she has a lengthy pedigree when it comes to a love of books ...
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The Gay Metropolis 1940 – 1996 posted on 09 Jun 2022
Kaiser is a journalist who has previously been a New York Times reporter and Newsweek editor – and it shows.
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One posted on 06 Jun 2022
New Yorker, David Karp (1922 – 1999) is best remembered for his 1953 novel, One which, alongside George Orwell’s 1984...
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The Gate of Angels posted on 30 May 2022
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn rereads Penelope Fitzgerald's novel and finds it has 'a mysteriously conveyed undercurrent of tragic melancholy'