Inspiring Older Readers
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland posted on 01 Jul 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads a perceptive account of the Troubles by Patrick Radden Keefe that won the 2019 Orwell Prize for political writing.
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The Sign of Four posted on 29 Jun 2020
Sherlock Holmes has become such a piece of shared cultural currency that we no longer turn much of a hair at the liberties taken by modern adaptations ..
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Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow posted on 26 Jun 2020
When this book was released in 1993 it created quite a stir and for a while it was the book to read.
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The Lighthouse posted on 23 Jun 2020
Alison Moore’s debut novel from 2012, produced by the innovative Salt Publishing, was unexpectedly shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
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The Flanders Panel posted on 15 Jun 2020
Sandwiched between the truly excellent, Fencing Master in 1988 and his most famous novel, The Club Dumas of 1993....
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The Lost Books of Jane Austen posted on 12 Jun 2020
OK. Full disclosure. I can’t abide the novels of Jane Austen.
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The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress posted on 09 Jun 2020
Beryl’s last novel, unfinished at her death in 2010 but tidied-up for posthumous publication by her editor, is still vintage Bainbridge.
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The Radetzky March posted on 05 Jun 2020
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds The Radetzky March is "a bleak but beautiful book whose real subjects..are dissolution and mortality".
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The Child posted on 02 Jun 2020
Guest reviewer, Yushra Fatima finds herself riveted by the chilling tale of a child serial-killer...
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Death in Venice posted on 28 May 2020
As the Covid-19 virus rampages around the world and we’re effectively confined to our houses...