Inspiring Older Readers
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All Souls posted on 18 Nov 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn remains resolutely unimpressed by the talents of Javier Marias and his novel, 'All Souls'.
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The Crow Road posted on 16 Nov 2020
This 500 page whopper of a book is, I suspect, the late Iain Banks’ most popular novel.
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How Many Miles to Babylon? posted on 05 Nov 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Jennifer Johnston's beautifully crafted novel of Anglo-Irish politics filtered through the lens of World War One
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater posted on 02 Nov 2020
Long before Huxley’s Doors of Perception, Hunter Thompson’s self-destructive excesses or the birth of psychedelic rock and pop music...
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The Man in the Red Coat posted on 27 Oct 2020
Guest writer, Alun Severn reads Julian Barnes' 'The Man in the Red Coat' and finds the author showing off his intellectual prowess to no good purpose.
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Double, Double posted on 22 Oct 2020
John Brunner John Brunner (1934 – 1995) is something of a lost figure of British science fiction..
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The Waters of Kronos posted on 20 Oct 2020
This comparatively short novel, which was published in 1960, won the National Book Award for Fiction in the States the following year.
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Wartime Lies posted on 16 Oct 2020
Guest reviewer Alun Severn reads Louis Begley's novel that tells the wartime story of a child who witnessed the hell of the Holocaust.
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Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment posted on 13 Oct 2020
“Great demon kings are people controlled by their big egos, but sometimes their egos inspire them to aspire to realise the empty true nature of mind"
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The Shining Levels posted on 09 Oct 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads John Wyatt's 'early foray into the (nature writing) genre' and finds it 'light, playful and funny, full of enjoyment.'