Inspiring Older Readers
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Childhood’s End posted on 02 Jan 2022
Many fans of science fiction consider Childhood’s End to be one of Clarke’s most important books...
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Lady, Lady, I Did It! posted on 29 Dec 2021
Ed McBain ( 1926 – 2005) was the pen name of the astonishingly prolific, Evan Hunter.
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Orwell’s Roses posted on 26 Dec 2021
You have to wonder just how many new ways into writing about the life and work of George Orwell are left to be found.
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The Murdstone Trilogy posted on 12 Dec 2021
Mal Peet, who died at the age of 67 in 2015, was much loved and admired by the children’s literature community ...
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Parnassus on Wheels posted on 08 Dec 2021
Parnassus on Wheels (1917) was actually the first novel published by the American writer, Christopher Morley...
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Anthony Blunt: His Lives posted on 05 Dec 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Miranda Carter's meticulously researched biography of the enigma that was Anthony Blunt, art expert and Soviet spy
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A Moveable Feast posted on 01 Dec 2021
Published posthumously in 1964 following the author’s suicide in 1961, A Moveable Feast is a memoire of his early career in Paris
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Trent’s Last Case posted on 25 Nov 2021
Amongst aficionados of crime writing’s Golden Age, Trent’s Last Case by Eric Clerihew Bentley has something of legendary status.
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean posted on 22 Nov 2021
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads a new collection of previously uncollected essays by Joan Didion
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Selected Tales by Algernon Blackwood posted on 18 Nov 2021
The name of Algernon Blackwood (1869 – 1951) is synonymous with tales of the unexpected, supernatural or ‘weird’.